On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > Not sure I follow. When we arrive at PQgetCopyData() there should be > nothing buffered, and if the end of stream happens there it returns > -1, and we exit, no? So where is the data that's lost? > > I do realize we don't actually fsync() and close() in this case - is > that what you are referring to? But the data should already have been > write()d, so it should still be there, no?
Oh, right. Hmm.. xlogdump might be the cause. Though I've not read the code of xlogdump, I wonder if it gives up outputting the contents of WAL file when it finds a partial WAL page... This strikes me that recovery code has the same problem. No? IOW, when a partial WAL page is found during recovery, I'm afraid that page would not be replayed though it contains valid data. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
