On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 07:59:24AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Please note that we do that in other tools as well and we live fine
> with that as pg_basebackup, pg_rewind just to name two. I am not
> saying that it is not a problem in some cases, but I am saying that
> this is not a problem that this patch should solve. If we were to do
> something about that, it could make sense to make fsync_pgdata()
> smarter so as the control file is flushed last there, or define flush
> strategies there.
Anyway, as this stuff is very useful for upgrade scenarios
a-la-pg_upgrade, for backup validation and as it does not produce
false positives, I would really like to get something committed for
v12 in its simplest form... Are there any recommendations that people
would like to add to the documentation?
--
Michael