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Re: BUG #4879: bgwriter fails to fsync the file in recovery mode - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: BUG #4879: bgwriter fails to fsync the file in recovery mode
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Msg-id 1246350375.27964.43.camel@dn-x300-willij
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In response to Re: BUG #4879: bgwriter fails to fsync the file in recovery mode  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 16:48 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> * I find the RecoveryInProgress test in XLogNeedsFlush rather dubious.
> Why is it okay to disable that?  For at least one of the two callers
> (SetHintBits) it seems like the safe answer is "true" not "false".
> This doesn't matter too much yet but it will for hot standby.

IIUC you think it is safest to *not* write hint bits during Hot Standby?

So we would treat all commits as async commits?

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