On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 09:29, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> I've applied this version with a few more minor changes that Heikki found.
>
> Cool!
>
> When I tried pg_receivexlog and checked the contents of streamed WAL file by
> xlogdump, I found that recent WAL records that walsender has already sent don't
> exist in that WAL file. I expected that pg_receivexlog writes the streamed WAL
> records to the disk as soon as possible, but it doesn't. Is this
> intentional? Or bug?
> Am I missing something?
It writes it to disk as soon as possible, but doesn't fsync() until
the end of each segment. Are you by any chance looking at the file
while it's running?
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