From: | Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> |
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To: | George Barnett <gbarnett(at)atlassian(dot)com> |
Cc: | Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Patch to improve reliability of postgresql on linux nfs |
Date: | 2011-09-12 05:59:32 |
Message-ID: | 4CFAF680-B5B8-4A5A-9B40-9A84F9680BE8@phlo.org |
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On Sep12, 2011, at 06:30 , George Barnett wrote:
> On 10/09/2011, at 1:30 AM, Bernd Helmle wrote:
>
>> --On 9. September 2011 10:27:22 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>
>>> On the whole I think you'd be better off lobbying your NFS implementors
>>> to provide something closer to the behavior of every other filesystem on
>>> the planet. Or checking to see if you need to adjust your NFS
>>> configuration, as the other responders mentioned.
>>
>> You really need at least mount options 'hard' _and_ 'nointr' on NFS mounts, otherwise you are out of luck. Oracle and DB2 guys recommend those settings and without them any millisecond of network glitch could disturb things unreasonably.
>
> My mount options include hard and intr.
If you really meant to say "intr" there (and not "nointr") then that probably explains the partial writes.
Still, I agree with Noah and Kevin that we ought to deal more gracefully with this, i.e. resubmit after a partial read() or write(). AFAICS there's nothing to be gained by not doing that, and the increase in code complexity should be negligible. If we do that, however, I believe we might as well handle EINTR correctly, even if SA_RESTART should prevent us from ever seeing that.
best regards,
Florian Pflug
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