On 11/28/06, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is at variance with what Merlin reported --- so I'm asking again just what platform he's on. He might want to strace cp to see whether it's doing an unlink or not in his scenario.
this is centos 32 bit. [root@boron esilo]# uname -a Linux boron.esilo.com 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL #1 Fri Oct 6 05:59:54 CDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux merlin