Re: rmtree() failure on Windows

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: rmtree() failure on Windows
Date: 2004-10-25 15:56:35
Message-ID: 20584.1098719795@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Shown below is an extract from the traces of make installcheck in
> contrib. It is decorated with some extra traces I built into
> src/port/dirmod.c::rmtree(). It shows quite reproducible failure of
> rmtree(), mostly at the rmdir calls, but even more worryingly there are
> consistent unlink failures also.

I kinda suspect that what you are looking at is a problem with the
delayed-unlinking feature that we built to cope with Windows' inability
to unlink open files, ie, it's being a little too slow to do the
unlinks. Would you refresh my memory about exactly where and when the
unlink happens if the initial try fails?

regards, tom lane

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