Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Consider the variant with extra marker files. In that case, backend B > > doesn't have to know about the .notcommitted status to flush the buffers. > > [ shrug ] It's still broken, and the reason is that there's no > equivalent of fsync for directory operations. Consider
Traditionally that's because directory operations were always synchronous, and hence didn't need to be fsynced. I think this is still true, other systems like qmail's maildir still depend on this, for example. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
