Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Hmm, what happens when the startup process performs a write, and
>> bgwriter is not running? Do the fsync requests queue up in the shmem
>> queue until the end of recovery when bgwriter is launched? I guess I'll
>> have to try it out...
> Oh dear, doesn't look good. The startup process has a pendingOpsTable of
> its own. bgwriter won't fsync() files that the startup process has
> written itself. That needs to be fixed, or you can lose data when an
> archive recovery crashes after a restartpoint.
Ouch. I'm beginning to think that the best thing is to temporarily
revert the change that made bgwriter active during recovery. It's
obviously not been adequately thought through or tested.
regards, tom lane