Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Attached patch puts a retry loop around opening the file that retries for 5
> seconds (which is excessive, but should be safe) in case the file is
> missing (and still fails out for other error messages of course).
> Comments?
The patch assumes that pg_usleep won't change errno, an assumption
I have little faith in.
regards, tom lane