Re: Win32 Powerfail testing

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> The idea of using this on Unix is tempting, but Tatsuo is using a
> threaded backend, so it is a little easier to do.  However, it would
> probably be pretty easy to write a file of modified file names that the
> checkpoint could read and open/fsync/close.

Even that's not strictly necessary -- we *do* have shared memory we
can use for this, and even when hundreds of tables have been written
the list will only end up being a few tens of kilobytes in size (plus
whatever overhead is required to track and manipulate the entries).

But even then, we don't actually have to track the *names* of the
files that have changed, just their RelFileNodes, since there's a
mapping function from the RelFileNode to the filename.

> Of course, if there are lots of files, sync() may be faster than
> opening/fsync/closing all those files.

This is true, and is something I hadn't actually thought of.  So it
sounds like some testing would be in order.

Unfortunately I know of no system call which will take an array of
file descriptors (or file names!  May as well go for the gold when
wishing for something :-) and sync them all to disk in the most
optimal way...


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Kevin Brown                          kevin@sysexperts.com