Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Pflug wrote: >> Not really. The backend will still use the reliable pg_ functions. >> Frontends continue to use the libc functions, which are totally >> sufficient in non-concurrent access situations.
> I would like to keep full Unix semantics for these functions even in > libpq, if possible. libpq doesn't use either rename or unlink AFAIK. However, if we make the patch be something involving #ifdef FRONTEND, then it will affect other code that might want to use those. One thing that hasn't been real clear to me is why this only affects fe-lobj.c, when we have many other files that include <io.h> after including postgres.h. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend