Re: Streaming base backups

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>
Cc: Garick Hamlin <ghamlin(at)isc(dot)upenn(dot)edu>, Cédric Villemain <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Streaming base backups
Date: 2011-01-11 17:45:02
Message-ID: 761.1294767902@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> writes:
> On Jan11, 2011, at 18:09 , Garick Hamlin wrote:
>> My gut was that direct io would likely work right on Linux
>> and Solaris, at least.

> Didn't we discover recently that O_DIRECT fails for ext4 on linux
> if ordered=data, or something like that?

Quite. Blithe assertions that something like this "should work" aren't
worth the electrons they're written on.

regards, tom lane

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