Re: BUG #4879: bgwriter fails to fsync the file in recovery mode

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #4879: bgwriter fails to fsync the file in recovery mode
Date: 2009-06-25 16:46:51
Message-ID: 1245948411.4038.167.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 12:33 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> > This is completely untested still, but does anyone immediately see any
> > more problems?
>
> Isn't SetForwardFsyncRequests going to cause the final mdsync to fail?

Yes it will, as it is now.

I didn't read the parts of the patch that were described as being from
my patch. Heikki, please tell me if you change things... it means I have
to be both patch author and reviewer. Perhaps just separate patches, so
we can review them independently.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support

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