Re: Fairly serious bug induced by latest guc enum changes

Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> No, my point was that there are three possible states of sync_bit and
>> your patch only accounted for transitions between two of 'em.

> Did this every get addressed? I don't see a commit for it.

I thought it got fixed here:

2008-05-14 10:02 mha

* src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c: Remove the special variable
for open_sync_bit used in O_SYNC and O_DSYNC modes, replacing it
with a call to a function that derives it from the sync_method
variable, now that it has distinct values for these two cases.

This means that assign_xlog_sync_method() no longer changes any
settings, thus fixing the bug introduced in the change to use a guc
enum for wal_sync_method.

Hmm ... or at least more or less fixed. Seems like there's no provision
to close and reopen the file if enableFsync changes. Not sure if that's
worth worrying about.

regards, tom lane