Re: could not create directory "...": File exists

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-01-17T18:51:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2013-01-17 13:46:44 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Or maybe we should just write this off as a case we can't realistically
> fix before we have MVCC catalog scans.  It seems that any other fix is
> going to be hopelessly ugly.

ISTM we could just use a MVCC snapshot in this specific case?

Andres
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