On Tuesday 29 December 2009 01:27:29 Greg Stark wrote: > 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. Actually it was necessary on ext3 as well - the window to hit the problem just was much smaller, wasnt it? Actually that part should possibly get backported. Andres -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
