Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 17:27, <anjali_524@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>> PST ERROR: could not fsync file "base/16409": Invalid argument Dec 30
>> 03:00:26 devok64-8 postgres_cifs_kaz_1[15812]: [2-2] [local] 15812
>> 2011-12-30 03:00:26.511 PST STATEMENT: CREATE DATABASE "KazDB
The specific error seems to be coming from copydir.c's attempt to fsync
a directory. We are already ignoring EBADF there, and could presumably
fix at least this symptom if we ignored EINVAL.
> PostgreSQL does not support data directory over CIFS.
I'm wondering what's your basis for asserting we don't support CIFS in
general? It's probably not terribly bulletproof, but any worse than NFS?
regards, tom lane
