| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | David Steele <david(at)pgbackrest(dot)org>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>, Pgsql hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Fwd: Re: A new look at old NFS readdir() problems? |
| Date: | 2025-01-08 20:23:02 |
| Message-ID: | Z37ept17aRTyPJn5@momjian.us |
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On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 03:21:27PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Will people now always get a clear error on failure? Crazy idea, but
> > could we have initdb or postmaster start test this?
>
> It'd require adding quite a lot of cycles: I'd guess you'd need to
> create/drop a hundred or a thousand files to be sure of seeing the
> problem.
>
> Another problem is that even if the primary data directory is okay,
> a tablespace could be created on a filesystem that's not okay.
>
> I doubt that it's worth it.
Oh, I thought if it could be recreated using just two files, it would be
worth it --- obviously not.
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