On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On 5/4/15 2:23 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Recursively fsync() the data directory after a crash.
>>
>> Otherwise, if there's another crash, some writes from after the first
>> crash might make it to disk while writes from before the crash fail
>> to make it to disk. This could lead to data corruption.
>
> If there a reason why in pre_sync_fname(), the error message does not
> contain a %m?
For consistency with the rest of the file, I suppose. Not sure why
it's like that, but all the functions in the file do it that way.
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