Re: Timing problem in DROP TABLESPACE?

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
>> On a recent test the last command of the last test has failed:
>> DROP TABLESPACE testspace;
>> ERROR:  tablespace "testspace" is not empty

> Maybe it is failing due to files that are scheduled to be deleted by
> next checkpoint?  If it runs a checkpoint internally, perhaps there's a
> race condition in the code that waits until the files are gone.

The buildfarm has shown this type of error occasionally, though AFAIR
only on Windows boxen.  I had assumed it was a Windows-specific issue.
        regards, tom lane