Re: drop tablespace error: invalid argument

Jan Otto <asche(at)me(dot)com> writes:
> The bug in readdir() appeared in the final snow leopard too. Anybody
> with Snow Leopard installed can check this, with simply doing the
> regression tests (make check). The tablespace regression test is
> failing.

> The patch i sent in works around the issue. if it is not acceptable to
> reread the tablespace-directory after every delete i can rewrite the
> workaround. Probably it is preferred that we write all entries of the
> directory into an array and looping through that array after that
> instead of looping with ReadDir()?

I'm not really eager to put in a workaround for such a basic OS bug,
especially not when the odds are good that it'll be fixed in 10.6.1.
Let's wait a little bit for Apple to get their act together.

regards, tom lane