Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Change Windows rename and unlink

Is there any reason for not back porting the fix into 8.1?
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan

> Log Message:
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> Change Windows rename and unlink substitutes so that they time out after
> 30 seconds instead of retrying forever.  Also modify xlog.c so that if
> it fails to rename an old xlog segment up to a future slot, it will
> unlink the segment instead.  Per discussion of bug #2712, in which it
> became apparent that Windows can handle unlinking a file that's being
> held open, but not renaming it.
> 
> Modified Files:
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>     pgsql/src/backend/access/transam:
>         xlog.c (r1.253 -> r1.254)
>         (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c.diff?r1=1.253&r2=1.254)
>     pgsql/src/port:
>         dirmod.c (r1.43 -> r1.44)
>         (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/port/dirmod.c.diff?r1=1.43&r2=1.44)
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