Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Sync pg_dump and pg_dumpall output

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Sync pg_dump and pg_dumpall output
Date: 2017-03-22 16:21:14
Message-ID: ea466b9d-a235-6471-cfb4-f6b9609beaa7@2ndQuadrant.com
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On 03/22/2017 12:10 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> Still I agree that we should have tests for both cases.
> Perhaps, though if I recall correctly, we've basically had zero calls
> for fsync() until this. If we don't feel like we need to test that in
> the backend then it seems a bit silly to feel like we need it for
> pg_dump's regression coverage.
>
> That said, perhaps the right answer is to have a couple tests for both
> the backend and for pg_dump which do exercise the fsync-enabled paths.
>
>

+1

cheers

andrew

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