Re: pg_rewind failure by file deletion in source server

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_rewind failure by file deletion in source server
Date: 2015-06-26 19:10:48
Message-ID: 20150626191048.GD19129@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2015-06-26 15:07:59 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> I realize that the recent fsync fiasco demonstrated that people keep
> files not readable by PG in the data directory

It wasn't unreadable files that were the primary problem, it was files
with read only permissions, no?

> "oops, I can't read this, that's probably OK" just does not seem good
> enough.

Agreed.

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