Re: fsync-pgdata-on-recovery tries to write to more files than previously

From: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: fsync-pgdata-on-recovery tries to write to more files than previously
Date: 2015-05-24 09:04:04
Message-ID: 20150524090404.GA28553@msg.df7cb.de
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Re: To Andres Freund 2015-05-24 <20150524075244(dot)GB27048(at)msg(dot)df7cb(dot)de>
> Re: Andres Freund 2015-05-24 <20150524005245(dot)GD32396(at)alap3(dot)anarazel(dot)de>
> > How about, to avoid masking actual problems, we have a more
> > differentiated logic for the toplevel data directory? I think we could
> > just skip all non-directory files in there data_directory itself. None
> > of the files in the toplevel directory, with the exception of
> > postgresql.auto.conf, will ever get written to by PG itself. And if
> > there's readonly files somewhere in a subdirectory, I won't feel
> > particularly bad.

pg_log/ is also admin domain. What about only recursing into
well-known directories + postgresql.auto.conf?

(I've also been wondering if pg_basebackup shouldn't skip pg_log, but
that's a different topic...)

Christoph
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