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

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I suppose we could, just not sure that an EINVAL should really be
getting returned here, imv.

Thanks!

Stephen