On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> In BufferSync(), we have this:
>
>> /*
>> * Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint, we write only permanent,
>> dirty
>> * buffers. But at shutdown time, we write all dirty buffers.
>> */
>> if (!(flags & CHECKPOINT_IS_SHUTDOWN))
>> flags |= BM_PERMANENT;
>
>
> That seems bogus to me. We're mixing CHECKPOINT_* flags and buffer BM_*
> flags in the same variable. Furthermore, we only use that flags variable to
> pass it down to CheckpointWriteDelay(), which only pays attention to
> CHECKPOINT_IMMEDIATE flag. The intention was probably to do "mask |=
> BM_PERMANENT" ?
Ouch. Yeah, that's a bug, will fix.
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