On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Andres Freund <andres@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > fsync everything in that pass. > Including the directory - which was not done before and actually might be > necessary in some cases. Er. Yes. At least on ext4 this is pretty important. I wish it weren't, but it doesn't look like we're going to convince the ext4 developers they're crazy any day soon and it would really suck for a database created from a template to have files in it go missin. -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance