At 2015-05-26 03:54:51 +0200, and...@anarazel.de wrote:
>
> Say a symlink goes to a binary, which is currently being executed:
> ETXTBSY. Or the file is in a readonly filesystem: EROFS.  So we'd
> need to ignore a lot of errors, possibly ignoring valid ones.

Right. That's why I started out by being conservative and following only
the "expected" symlinks in pg_tblspc (as other parts of the code do).

> Another thing is whether we should handle a recursive symlink in
> pgdata? I personally think not, but...

I think not too.

> It's also not just as simple as making fsync_fname fail gracefully
> upon EACCESS - the opendir() could fail just as well.

I'll post a proposed patch shortly.

-- Abhijit


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