On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Is there a way to create a link to a file which only exists as an open > file descriptor? If there was, you could create a temp file, open an > fd, then delete the file. That would remove the issue with files being > leaked due to failures of various kinds.
Sort of. On recent Linuxen you can create a file with open(O_TMPFILE) then use linkat(2) to create a link for it only once it's fully written. -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
