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Re: Loaded footgun open_datasync on Windows

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2018-06-01T12:03:57Z
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 11:43:33AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> I am worried that there might be loads of Windows installations out there happily
> running productive databases with an unsafe setup, so I'd even suggest backpatching
> such a change.

This is not only your imagination, there are deployments doing so, for
the sole reasons that the default values are "safe" :)

I would be all for it for changing the default value on HEAD to a safe
value as well as the back-branches.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Allow concurrent-safe open() and fopen() in frontend code for Windows

  2. Fix inclusions of c.h from .h files.

  3. Allow borland compiles.

  4. Corrects issues recently posted by Dann Corbit, allowing libpq/psql to