Re: should frontend tools use syncfs() ?

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Brown <michael(dot)brown(at)discourse(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: should frontend tools use syncfs() ?
Date: 2023-10-09 20:48:23
Message-ID: 20231009204823.GA659480@nathanxps13
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 10:29:07AM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 01:56:08PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> We have a collection of platform-specific notes in chapter 19, including
>> file-system-related notes in section 19.2. Maybe it could be put there?
>
> I will give this a try.

I started on this, but I couldn't shake the feeling that this wasn't the
right place for these notes. This chapter is about setting up a server,
and the syncfs() notes do apply to the recovery_init_sync_method
configuration parameter, but it also applies to a number of server/client
applications.

I've been looking around, and I haven't found a great place to move this
section to. IMO some of the other appendices have similar amounts of
information (e.g., Date/Time Support, The Source Code Repository, Color
Support), so maybe a dedicated appendix isn't too extreme. Another option
could be to introduce a new section for platform-specific notes, but that
would just make this section even larger for now.

Thoughts?

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Nathan Bossart
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

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