I wrote:
> BTW, I notice that after allegedly fixing things, we are now seeing
> fsync failures during CREATE DATABASE in the installcheck phase of
> buildfarm runs on (apparently) all the Windows critters, plus a
> couple of other platforms too. This mystifies me. I could believe
> that there was something still wrong with copydir.c, but then how
> come these machines are getting through the earlier "make check"
> phase?
BTW, although things seem to be going green with the RDONLY->RDWR
change, I'm still mystified why these machines didn't fail at
"make check". Is it possible that "make check" runs the postmaster
with fsync disabled? I don't see that in the code anywhere...
regards, tom lane
