Re: Streaming replication on win32, still broken

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Streaming replication on win32, still broken
Date: 2010-02-18 07:38:15
Message-ID: 4B7CEE67.8010002@enterprisedb.com
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Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> If I'm reading the patch correctly, when wal_sync_method is 'open_sync',
>> walreceiver nevertheless opens the WAL file without the O_DIRECT flag.
>> When it later flushes it in XLogWalRcvFlush() by issue_xlog_fsync(),
>> issue_xlog_fsync() will do nothing because it assumes the write() synced
>> it already. So the data written isn't being forced to disk at all.
>
> When 'open_sync' is chosen, the WAL file is opened with O_SYNC or O_FSYNC
> flag. So I think that write() flushes the data to disk even if O_DIRECT
> flag is not given. Am I missing something?

Ah, ok, you're right.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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