Re: CREATE DATABASE vs delayed table unlink

Matthew Wakeling wrote:
>> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>>> Another thought is to ignore ENOENT in copydir.
> 
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, I thought about that too, but it seems extremely dangerous ...
> 
> I agree. If a file randomly goes missing, that's not an error to ignore, 
> even if you think the only way that could happen is safe.

I committed a patch to do a full-blown checkpoint before the copy. 
Annoying to do two checkpoints, but CREATE DATABASE is a pretty 
heavy-weight operation anyway. I don't see any other solution at the 
moment, at least not one that we could back-patch.

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