Re: Win32 Powerfail testing

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Dave Page wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tatsuo Ishii [mailto:t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp]
> > Sent: 05 March 2003 02:23
> > To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: [HACKERS] Win32 Powerfail testing
> >
> > So far we found interesting facts. Our Win32 port passes his
> > test in most cases. However if power of the machine is turned
> > off right after (10 to 20 seconds) the Checkpoint has been
> > made, it does not passes his test. So we are thinking that
> > there is someting wrong with the checkpoint implementaion for
> > Win32 port, which is essentially same as Jan's
> > implementation. i.e. using _flushall() instead of sync(). We
> > were looking for a fix or an alternative implementaion of
> > sync() without success.
>
> Hi Tatsuo,
>
> Does this help:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;66052

OMG, I'm rolling. You have to connect to the COMMODE.OBJ to fix a
flushing problem. Someone at MS has a sense of humor. I thought running
PHP on crack was funny (i.e. --with-crack switch to turn on cracklib) but
this one is even better.