On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 17:35 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > Hmm, what happens when the startup process performs a write, and
> > bgwriter is not running? Do the fsync requests queue up in the shmem
> > queue until the end of recovery when bgwriter is launched? I guess I'll
> > have to try it out...
>
> Oh dear, doesn't look good. The startup process has a pendingOpsTable of
> its own. bgwriter won't fsync() files that the startup process has
> written itself. That needs to be fixed, or you can lose data when an
> archive recovery crashes after a restartpoint.
Yes, that's what I see also. Patch attached.
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