Re: Timing problem in DROP TABLESPACE?

On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 10:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Simon Riggs wrote:
> >> On a recent test the last command of the last test has failed:
> >> DROP TABLESPACE testspace;
> >> ERROR: tablespace "testspace" is not empty
>
> > Maybe it is failing due to files that are scheduled to be deleted by
> > next checkpoint? If it runs a checkpoint internally, perhaps there's a
> > race condition in the code that waits until the files are gone.
>
> The buildfarm has shown this type of error occasionally, though AFAIR
> only on Windows boxen. I had assumed it was a Windows-specific issue.

No MS Windows here.

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