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:
> 13.11.2020 23:16, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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().

> Maybe pgwin32_safestat() should perform this...

Uh ... now that you mention it, that's gone since bed90759f.

There is code in win32stat.c that purports to cope with this case, though
I've not tested it personally.

			regards, tom lane