* Andres Freund (and...@anarazel.de) wrote: > On 2015-05-25 13:38:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > > On May 24, 2015 7:52:53 AM PDT, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > > If we'd merge it with initdb's list I think I'd not be that bad. I'm > > > thinking of some header declaring it, roughly like the rmgr list. > > > > pg_log/ is a counterexample to that idea too; initdb doesn't know about it > > (and shouldn't). > > The idea would be to *only* directories that initdb knows about. Since > that's where the valuables are. So I don't see how pg_log would be a > counterexample.
Indeed, that wouldn't be included in the list of things to fsync and it
isn't listed in initdb, so that works.
I've not followed this thread all that closely, but I do tend to agree
with the idea of "only try to mess with files that are *clearly* ours to
mess with."
Thanks!
Stephen
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