pgsql: Add initdb --sync-only option to sync the data directory to dura

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Add initdb --sync-only option to sync the data directory to dura
Date: 2012-12-04 03:48:09
Message-ID: E1TfjUP-0007Ap-Cl@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Add initdb --sync-only option to sync the data directory to durable
storage.

Have pg_upgrade use it, and enable server options fsync=off and
full_page_writes=off.

Document that users turning fsync from off to on should run initdb
--sync-only.

[ Previous commit was incorrectly applied as a git merge. ]

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/630cd14426dc1daf85163ad417f3a224eb4ac7b0

Modified Files
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contrib/pg_upgrade/pg_upgrade.c | 6 ++++++
contrib/pg_upgrade/server.c | 10 ++++++----
doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 9 +++++++++
doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml | 11 +++++++++++
src/bin/initdb/initdb.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
5 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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