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

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #4879: bgwriter fails to fsync the file in recovery mode
Date: 2009-06-25 16:27:51
Message-ID: 1245947271.4038.162.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 19:20 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> >

> But we need to set LocalRecoveryInProgress appropriately
> > also.
>
> Yeah, the trouble is to tell bgwriter that it's OK for it to create the
> checkpoint, which includes writing a WAL record, while still keeping the
> system "in-recovery" for all other purposes. While we could just relax
> the checks, that seems like a very important safeguard.
>
> (I posted in the other mail to do a restartpoint before the startup
> process does the checkpoint)

I think we're in strong agreement, just thinking and writing emails in
realtime gives a few race conditions... your patch covers everything I
mentioned above.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support

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