Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
> That doesn't work on Windows. As long as a walsender is keeping the old
> file open, the unlink() on it fails. You get an error like this in the
> startup process:
> FATAL: could not rename file "pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG" to
> "pg_xlog/00000001000000000000000D": Permission denied
I thought we had some workaround for that problem. Otherwise, you'd be
seeing this type of failure every time a checkpoint tries to drop or
rename files.
regards, tom lane