Re: Potential data loss of 2PC files

From: Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Potential data loss of 2PC files
Date: 2017-03-27 16:25:49
Message-ID: 8c059d57-2763-289a-b9a9-c2d0d1277eb7@sigaev.ru
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>> Thank you. One more question: what about symlinks? If DBA moves, for
>> example, pg_xact to another dist and leaves the symlink in data directoty.
>> Suppose, fsync on symlink will do nothing actually.
>
> I did not think of this case, but is that really common? There is even
I saw a lot such cases.

> If something should be done in this area, that would be surely in
> fsync_fname directly to centralize all the calls, and I would think of
> that as a separate patch, and a separate discussion.
Agree

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