Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun ago 16 11:49:51 -0400 2010:
>> The bottom line here is that it's not clear to me whether changing this
>> would be a net reliability improvement or not. Maybe better to leave
>> it alone.
> In that case, maybe consider fsync'ing it.
Hrm ... I had supposed we did fsync lockfiles, but a look at the code
shows not. This seems like a clear oversight. I think we should not
only add that, but back-patch it. It seems entirely plausible that the
lack of an fsync is exactly what led to the original complaint.
regards, tom lane
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