Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I think that what Kevin was on about was something else entirely,
> namely whether we need to retry writes to disk.
I would phrase it that we need to *continue* a write to disk if the
OS chooses to write a portion of it and return to the caller with
the number actually written. If the first write, or any later
write, actually gets an error or fails to make progress, *then* we
should consider the attempt to be done. I don't understand the
point of not coding to the API.
-Kevin