Re: pg_ctl reload - is it safe?

From: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: michael(at)synchronicity(dot)com, Pgsql-Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_ctl reload - is it safe?
Date: 2003-10-14 19:37:01
Message-ID: 59670000.1066160221@lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net
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--On Tuesday, October 14, 2003 15:31:42 -0400 Bruce Momjian
<pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Michael Brusser <michael(at)synchronicity(dot)com> writes:
>> > Yes, we use NFS. Many of our customers use it as well.
>>
>> You are of course aware that this is not real safe...
>
> Maybe we should throw a "stop using NFS" if we get an EINTR from
> read()/write(), or explain what NFS options they should avoid.
Err, some of us use NetApp filers as NFS servers for our PG data, and I
believe that that negates at least some of the risk. I don't want to see
us (PG) not support something just because it *MAY* be unsafe.

LER

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