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Re: [BUGS] Fails to work on live images due to fsync() on pg_commit_ts before doing any write there - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [BUGS] Fails to work on live images due to fsync() on pg_commit_ts before doing any write there
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Msg-id 11052.1510066721@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [BUGS] Fails to work on live images due to fsync() onpg_commit_ts before doing any write there  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: [BUGS] Fails to work on live images due to fsync() onpg_commit_ts before doing any write there  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Raphael Hertzog (hertzog@debian.org) wrote:
>> Still I believe that this issue should be fixed in both sides. It's not
>> smart from PostgreSQL to call fsync() when it has not made any change.

> Why?

My thought about this is just to ignore EINVAL when fsync'ing a directory,
as we already do with EBADF.
        regards, tom lane


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