Re: initdb and fsync

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: 2012-06-18T19:55:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 21:41 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> It calls pg_flush_data inside of copy_file which does the posix_fadvise... So 
> maybe just put the sync_file_range in pg_flush_data?

Oh, I didn't notice that, thank you.

In that case, it may be good to combine them if possible. I will look
into it. There may be performance implications when used one a larger
amount of data though. I can do some brief testing.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis