Re: BUG #4879: bgwriter fails to fsync the file in recovery mode

On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 18:57 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> I came up with the attached patch, which includes Simon's patch to
> have all fsync requests forwarded to bgwriter during archive recovery.
> To fix the startup checkpoint issue, startup process requests a forced
> restartpoint, which will flush any fsync requests bgwriter has
> accumulated, before doing the actual checkpoint in the startup
> process.

That looks fine.

> This is completely untested still, but does anyone immediately see any
> more problems?

Nothing seen.

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