Hello Tom, From: Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> > Tomas Vondra <tomas.von...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > I think it depends how exactly it's implemented. As Tom pointed out in > > his message [1], we can't do the erasure itself in the post-commit is > > not being able to handle errors. But if the files are renamed durably, > > and the erasure happens in a separate process, that could be OK. The > > COMMIT may wayt for it or not, that's mostly irrelevant I think. > > How is requiring a file rename to be completed post-commit any less > problematic than the other way? You still have a non-negligible > chance of failure.
I think that errors of rename(2) listed in [1] cannot occur or can be handled. What do you think? [1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/rename.2.html Regards, -- Takanori Asaba
