| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Greg Stark <stark(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] Re: pgsql: Speed up CREATE DATABASE by deferring the fsyncs until after |
| Date: | 2010-02-23 16:13:06 |
| Message-ID: | 22615.1266941586@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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I wrote:
> BTW, I notice that after allegedly fixing things, we are now seeing
> fsync failures during CREATE DATABASE in the installcheck phase of
> buildfarm runs on (apparently) all the Windows critters, plus a
> couple of other platforms too. This mystifies me. I could believe
> that there was something still wrong with copydir.c, but then how
> come these machines are getting through the earlier "make check"
> phase?
BTW, although things seem to be going green with the RDONLY->RDWR
change, I'm still mystified why these machines didn't fail at
"make check". Is it possible that "make check" runs the postmaster
with fsync disabled? I don't see that in the code anywhere...
regards, tom lane
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