| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <stark(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] Re: pgsql: Speed up CREATE DATABASE by deferring the fsyncs until after |
| Date: | 2010-02-23 07:43:21 |
| Message-ID: | 201002230843.32394.andres@anarazel.de |
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Hi Tom,
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 06:37:26 Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Any theories about what is happening?
> Now, this doesn't mean that all is fine and dandy. I believe that a
> majority of Unixen will reject attempts to open directories for writing,
> so this solution puts us even further away from being able to fsync the
> directories. I would bet however that the platforms that reject this
> are ones that don't need fsync on directories. Maybe we just have to
> have two different code paths depending on platform :-(
Cool.
You can't open a directory for writing under linux as well though - so that
wont be the decisive argument. Do you have a better idea than a configure
test?
Andres
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