Re: Postgres, fsync, and OSs (specifically linux)

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres, fsync, and OSs (specifically linux)
Date: 2018-07-18 23:21:52
Message-ID: CAEepm=3yQ5OUVJWR5SScuMo36DiPqsEjhqtEkytEZ+=vTyKT1A@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 7:23 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 2. I don't like promote_ioerr_to_panic() very much, partly because the
> same pattern gets repeated over and over, and partly because it would
> be awkwardly-named if we discovered that another 2 or 3 errors needed
> similar handling (or some other variant handling). I suggest instead
> having a function like report_critical_fsync_failure(char *path) that
> ...

Note that if we don't cover *all* errno values, or ...

> 8. Andres suggested to me off-list that we should have a GUC to
> disable the promote-to-panic behavior in case it turns out to be a
> show-stopper for some user.

... we let the user turn this off, then we also have to fix this:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/87y3i1ia4w(dot)fsf(at)news-spur(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk

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Thomas Munro
http://www.enterprisedb.com

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