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

On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 19:37 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> >> This is completely untested still, but does anyone immediately see any
> >> more problems?
> >
> > Isn't SetForwardFsyncRequests going to cause the final mdsync to fail?
>
> Yes, I just noticed that myself, testing it for the first time. That
> check needs to be suppressed in the startup checkpoint.

Better to do it as it was in my patch. We can turn off/on then.

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