Re: Win32 rename()/unlink() questions

Mike Mascari wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
>> Mike Mascari wrote:
>>
>>> I will do some testing with concurrency and let you know. But don't 
>>> get your hopes up. This is one of the many advantages that 
>>> TABLESPACEs have when more than one relation is stored in a single 
>>> DATAFILE. There was Oracle for MS-DOS, after all..
>>
>>
>>
>> I was focusing on handling of pg_pwd and other config file that are
>> written by various backend while other backends are reading them.  The
>> actual data files should be OK because we have an exclusive lock when we
>> are adding/removing them.
>>
> 
> OK. So you want to test:
> 
> 1. Process 1 opens "foo"
> 2. Process 2 opens "foo"
> 3. Process 1 renames "foo" to "bar"
> 4. Process 2 can safely read from its open file handle

Actually, looking at the pg_pwd code, you want to determine a 
way for:

1. Process 1 opens "foo"
2. Process 2 opens "foo"
3. Process 1 creates "bar"
4. Process 1 renames "bar" to "foo"
5. Process 2 can continue to read data from the open file handle 
and get the original "foo" data.

Is that correct?

Mike Mascari
mascarm@mascari.com