Re: [Patch] Check file type before calling AllocateFile() for filesout of pg data directory to avoid potential issues (e.g. hang).

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 10:36:03AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Nah, I don't buy that one either.  Nobody has any business creating any
> non-Postgres files in the stats directory ... and if somebody does want
> to stick a FIFO in there, perhaps for debug purposes, why should we stop
> them?

I have never used a FIFO in Postgres for debugging purposes, but that
sounds plausible.  I am not sure either the changes proposed in the
patch are a good idea.
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Michael