Re: could not create directory "...": File exists

* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> This seems to provide a reasonably principled
> argument why we might want to fix this case with a localized use of an
> MVCC scan before we have such a fix globally.

I had discussed that idea a bit with Andres on IRC and my only concern
was if there's some reason that acquiring a snapshot during createdb()
would be problematic. It doesn't appear to currently and I wasn't sure
if there'd be any issues.

I'll start working on a patch for that.

> Not that I wouldn't still want to mark it with a REVERT_ME_SOMEDAY
> kind of annotation. We know we need the SnapshotNow scan fix.

Agreed.

Thanks,

Stephen