Re: Patch to improve reliability of postgresql on linux nfs

On fre, 2011-09-09 at 10:04 +1000, George Barnett wrote:
> After looking through the code I found that when postgres calls
> write() it doesn't retry.  In order to address the issue with the
> PANIC in the WAL writer I set the sync method to o_sync which solved
> the issue in that part of the code, however I was still seeing
> failures in other areas of the code (such as the FileWrite function).
> Following this, I spoke to an NFS guru who pointed out that writes
> under linux are not guaranteed to complete unless you open up O_SYNC
> or similar on the file handle.

I've had this problem many years ago.  I recall that changing the mount
options for NFS also fixed it.  Could you post what mount options you
are using.

(We eventually moved away from NFS at that time, so I didn't pursue it
further, but my analysis back then matched yours.)