Bruce,
I posted the attached patch 4 days ago, with the comment
"The attached patch will redefine unlink and rename only if FRONTEND is not defined.".
I still believe this a good way to fix it.
Tom Lane wrote:
To put that in a more positive light: we like to think that our code is Posix-compliant and runs in a Posix-compliant environment. We're not thrilled about introducing non-Posix-isms for the convenience of one platform ... especially if there's no easy way to enforce that the nonstandard coding convention be used.
Back on track: if rename() does exist under Windows then my idea is unreliable. Any other thoughts? How about #including <io.h> in port.h (for Windows only of course) before we #define these things?
Probably won't work, because pgrename and rename do not have the same definition/linkage.
Regards, Andreas
Index: port.h =================================================================== RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/include/port.h,v retrieving revision 1.52 diff -u -r1.52 port.h --- port.h 12 Aug 2004 18:32:43 -0000 1.52 +++ port.h 13 Aug 2004 15:58:19 -0000 @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ extern int pclose_check(FILE *stream); -#if defined(WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__) +#if (defined(WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__)) && !defined(FRONTEND) /* * Win32 doesn't have reliable rename/unlink during concurrent access, * and we need special code to do symlinks.
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