On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 03:48:53PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Larry Rosenman <l...@lerctr.org> writes: > > @Tom Lane: This is what Rick Macklem (NFS dev on FreeBSD) has to say on > > my issue. > > Thanks for reaching out to him. So if I'm reading this correctly, > there's little point in filing a FreeBSD bug because it'll be > dismissed as unfixable. > > This leaves us in rather a nasty position. Sure, we could rewrite > rmtree() as Thomas suggested upthread, but I'm still of the opinion > that that's smearing lipstick on a pig. rmtree() is the least of > our worries: it doesn't need to expect that anybody else will be > modifying the target directory, plus it can easily restart its scan > without complicated bookkeeping. I doubt we can make such an > assumption for all our uses of readdir(), or that it's okay to > miss or double-process files in every one of them. > > I'm still of the opinion that the best thing to do is disclaim > safety of storing a database on NFS.
It would be nice to have some details on the docs about why NFS can cause problems so we have something to point to when people ask. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Do not let urgent matters crowd out time for investment in the future.
