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

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> In archive recovery, we always start bgwriter at the beginning of WAL
> replay. In crash recovery, we don't start bgwriter until the end of wAL
> replay. So we could change the "!isRedo" condition to
> "!InArchiveRecovery". It's not a very clean solution, but it's simple.

This is probably what is needed.  We need to look around for other tests
of "in redo" that have been obsoleted by the change in bgwriter
behavior.

            regards, tom lane