On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:11:59AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> > And actually, when I look at the API docs, our case now seems to be
> > documented. Or am I misreading our situation. I have:
>
> > "If you call CreateFile on a file that is pending deletion as a result
> > of a previous call to DeleteFile, the function fails. The operating
> > system delays file deletion until all handles to the file are closed.
> > GetLastError returns ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED."
>
> We are not calling CreateFile ... we're just trying to open the thing.
Yes, we are calling CreateFile. It's used to open files as well. Check
the code in src/port/open.c.
It's not very intuitive, but createfile is used both to create new files
and to open existing ones (create handles to them).
//Magnus