On 2015-01-14 10:53:40 +0100, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2015-01-14 11:43:00 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > > I'm not thrilled about sprinkling fsync() calls everywhere that we touch > > files. But I guess that would be the right thing to do. I'm planning to do > > that as an add-on patch later, fixing also pg_basebackup and any other > > utilities that need it. > > Yea, we really need to do this. We also need it in the server, right now > there's a bunch of rather ugly corner cases where we rely on not fsynced > files being present after e.g. two consecutive crashes. Abhijit has sent > a patch.
explanation http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20140918083148.GA17265%40alap3.anarazel.de Abhijit's patch http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20141106122653.ga18...@toroid.org Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
