Re: Add pg_file_sync() to adminpack - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Julien Rouhaud
Subject Re: Add pg_file_sync() to adminpack
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Msg-id CAOBaU_ag0rZ7Vd6n1yp1sAnyxAGp7JG=VUVmOZMtq4+tbYJV4g@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Add pg_file_sync() to adminpack  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
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On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 6:56 AM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 01:28:29PM +0900, Arthur Zakirov wrote:
> > It is compiled and passes the tests. There is the documentation and it is
> > built too without an error.
> >
> > It seems that consensus about the returned type was reached and I marked the
> > patch as "Ready for Commiter".
>
> +       fsync_fname_ext(filename, S_ISDIR(fst.st_mode), false, ERROR);
> One comment here: should we warn better users in the docs that a fsync
> failule will not trigger a PANIC here?  Here, fsync failure on heap
> file => ERROR => potential data corruption.

Definitely yes.



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