Michael Paquier wrote: >> In my quest of making the backup tools more compliant to data >> durability, here is a thread for pg_dump and pg_dumpall. > > Okay, here is a patch doing the above. I have added a new --nosync > option to pg_dump and pg_dumpall to switch to the pre-10 behavior. I > have arrived at the conclusion that it is better not to touch at > _EndData and _EndBlob, and just issue the fsync in CloseArchive when > all the write operations are done. In the case of the directory > format, the fsync is done on all the entries recursively. This makes > as well the patch more simple. The regression tests calling pg_dump > don't use --nosync yet in this patch, that's a move that could be done > afterwards.
The patch does not apply, I had to change the hunk for src/include/common/file_utils.h. Also, compilation fails because function "pre_fsync_fname" cannot be resolved during linking. Is that a typo for "pre_fsync_fname" or is the patch incomplete? Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
