Hi Greg, On Monday 18 January 2010 17:35:59 Greg Stark wrote: > 2) Why does the second pass to do the fsyncs read through fromdir to > find all the filenames. I find that odd and counterintuitive. It would > be much more natural to just loop through the files in the new > directory. But I suppose it serves as an added paranoia check that the > files are in fact still there and we're not fsyncing any files we > didn't just copy. I think it should still work, we should have an > exclusive lock on the template database so there really ought to be no > differences between the directory trees. If it weren't safe we would already have a big problem.... Andres -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance