From: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Error handling (or lack of it) in RemovePgTempFilesInDir |
Date: | 2017-12-05 02:30:38 |
Message-ID: | CAB7nPqRGpkpJp2UkxU04br+Ya3C+Hea0E1ocnjiLFHMaOF4zkw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Uh ... I'm confused? That particular change only concerns whether we emit
>>> a log message, not whether the action is attempted or succeeds.
>
>> From the commit mentioned upthread, this switches one hard failure
>> when opening pg_tblspc to a LOG report:
>> @@ -3014,7 +3018,7 @@ RemovePgTempFiles(void)
>> */
>> spc_dir = AllocateDir("pg_tblspc");
>
>> - while ((spc_de = ReadDir(spc_dir, "pg_tblspc")) != NULL)
>> + while ((spc_de = ReadDirExtended(spc_dir, "pg_tblspc", LOG)) != NULL)
>> {
>
> That's not the same commit you just mentioned.
561885db05d3296082ce8750805b8ec322cf9aa1 refers to this thread, and I
am reading this diff as part of it :)
> The general theory I'm operating on is that we should endeavor to
> let the database start in any situation where that doesn't involve
> a data-corruption hazard. Yeah, it might not be nice if we leave
> GB worth of temp files around, but is a postmaster start failure
> better? I don't think so.
I am getting the feeling that we are going to see people complain
about those files lying around as well... That's as far as my opinion
goes.
--
Michael
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