| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Idea for improving buildfarm robustness |
| Date: | 2015-09-29 21:13:33 |
| Message-ID: | 20150929211333.GL2573@alvherre.pgsql |
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Joe Conway wrote:
> On 09/29/2015 01:48 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > I remember it, but I'm not sure it would have helped you. As I recall,
> > your trouble was that after a reboot the init script decided to initdb
> > the mount point -- postmaster wouldn't have been running at all ...
>
> Right, which the init script non longer does as far as I'm aware, so
> hopefully will never happen again to anyone.
Yeah.
> But it was still a case where the postmaster started on one copy of
> PGDATA (the newly init'd copy), and then the contents of the real PGDATA
> was swapped in (when the filesystem was finally mounted), causing
> corruption to the production data.
Ah, I didn't remember that part of it, but it makes sense.
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