On sön, 2011-12-18 at 21:34 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > On 18.12.2011 20:44, David Fetter wrote: > > Any way to > > simulate them, even if it's by injecting faults into the source code? > > Hmm, it's hard to persuade the OS to suffer a torn page on purpose. What > you could do is split the write() call in mdwrite() into two. First > write the 1st half of the page, then the second. Then you can put a > breakpoint in between the writes, and kill the system before the 2nd > half is written.
Perhaps the Library-level Fault Injector (http://lfi.sf.net) could be used to set up a test for this. (Not that I think you need one, but if David wants to see it happen himself ...) -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
