Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:38:47 -0600
From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: basic_archive lost archive_directory
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 03:14:15PM -0600, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 10:06:25AM -0600, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> As I mentioned upthread, IMHO we should simply remove the existence check
>> from the GUC check hook.  basic_archive must already be written to handle
>> the archive directory disappearing at any moment, so we should be able to
>> rely on it without the extra stat().
> 
> Concretely, like the attached.

Any thoughts?  I'll wait another week or so, but then will proceed with
committing/back-patching this.

-- 
nathan