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From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: pgsql: Checkpointer starts before bgwriter to avoid missing fsync reque
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Msg-id 4FC87570.1090002@enterprisedb.com
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In response to pgsql: Checkpointer starts before bgwriter to avoid missing fsync reque  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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On 01.06.2012 10:28, Simon Riggs wrote:
> Checkpointer starts before bgwriter to avoid missing fsync requests.
> Noted while testing Hot Standby startup.

The processes are just forked and it will take some time for them to
initialize. Isn't there still a race condition, where the bgwriter
starts up first, and you still miss fsync requests?

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   Heikki Linnakangas
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