From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: pg11+: pg_ls_*dir LIMIT 1: temporary files .. not closed at
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Comments: In-reply-to Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
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Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> writes:
> Shouldn't pg_ls_dir_files() retry stat() on ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED just
> like the pgwin32_open() does to ignore files in "delete pending" state?

That would soon lead us to changing every stat() caller in the system
to have Windows-specific looping logic.  No thanks.  If we need to do
this, let's put in a Windows wrapper layer comparable to pgwin32_open()
for open().

			regards, tom lane