| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>,Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-core <pgsql-core(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [CORE] [BUGS] BUG #13350: blindly fsyncing data dir considered harmful |
| Date: | 2015-05-25 15:55:42 |
| Message-ID: | 1B40A9EB-4DD1-4C38-B8FB-3FB0CDF5E3C0@anarazel.de |
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On May 25, 2015 8:52:33 AM PDT, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 04:37:59PM +0100, Greg Stark wrote:
>> What exactly is failing?
>>
>> Is it that fsync is returning -1 ? Should we just ignore errors from
>> fsync if it happens in this stage? That might be safer than
>> determining which files should or shouldn't be fsynced.
>
>Interesting idea. We could skip fsync -1 failures only for symbolic
>links.
Now there's already a thread on jackets about this.
Andres
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