| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Patrick Earl <patearl(at)patearl(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Checkpoint request failed on version 8.2.1. |
| Date: | 2007-01-11 21:16:22 |
| Message-ID: | 5515.1168550182@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> I find it very unlikely that you would "during normal operations" end up
> in a situation where you would first have permissions to create files in
> a directory, and then lose them.
> What could be is that you have a directory where you never had
> permissions to create the file in the first place.
> Any chance to differentiate between these?
The cases we're concerned about involve access to an existing file, not
attempts to create a new one, so I'm not clear what your point is.
I would certainly *love* to differentiate between these failures and
ordinary permissions failures, but so far as I've heard we can't.
regards, tom lane
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