Hi,
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Fujii Masao wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, the old xlog itself is not used again. But, the *old file* might
>>>> be recycled and used later. The case that I'm looking at is that the
>>>> symlink to a temporary area is recycled. Am I missing something?
>>>
>>> Actually, I think the right fix for that would be to add defenses to
>>> xlog.c to not try to "recycle" a file that is a symlink.
>>
>> OK, I tweaked Aidan's patch. Thanks Aidan!
>>
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20090601152736.GL15213@yugib.highrise.ca
>>
>> Changes are:
>> - use lstat instead of stat
>> - add #if HAVE_WORKING_LINK and #endif code
>
> Committed. I left out the "#ifdef HAVE_WORKING_LINK" and used S_ISREG()
> instead of S_ISLNK. We use lstat + S_ISREG elsewhere too, so there should be
> no portability issues.
Thanks a lot!
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
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