Greetings,
* Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 2:06 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> > * Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 1:05 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> > > > What if %f.bz2 already exists?
> > >
> > > That cannot occur in the scenario I described.
> >
> > Of course it can.
>
> Not really. The steps I described involved creating a new directory.
> Yeah, in theory, somebody could inject a file into that directory
> after we created it and before bzip writes any files into it, but
> pg_basebackup already has the exact same race condition.
With pg_basebackup, at least we could reasonably fix that race
condition.
Thanks,
Stephen