| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(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 19:03:22 |
| Message-ID: | 26353.1245956602@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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While nosing around the problem areas, I think I've found yet another
issue here. The global bool InRecovery is only maintained correctly
in the startup process, which wasn't a problem before 8.4. However,
if we are making the bgwriter execute the end-of-recovery checkpoint,
there are multiple places where it is tested that are going to be
executed by bgwriter. I think (but am not 100% sure) that these
are all the at-risk references:
XLogFlush
CheckPointMultiXact
CreateCheckPoint (2 places)
Heikki's latest patch deals with the tests in CreateCheckPoint (rather
klugily IMO) but not the others. I think it might be better to fix
things so that InRecovery is maintained correctly in the bgwriter too.
regards, tom lane
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