Re: [COMMITTERS] Re: pgsql: Speed up CREATE DATABASE by deferring the fsyncs until after
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Greg Stark <stark@postgresql.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-02-23T16:13:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I wrote: > BTW, I notice that after allegedly fixing things, we are now seeing > fsync failures during CREATE DATABASE in the installcheck phase of > buildfarm runs on (apparently) all the Windows critters, plus a > couple of other platforms too. This mystifies me. I could believe > that there was something still wrong with copydir.c, but then how > come these machines are getting through the earlier "make check" > phase? BTW, although things seem to be going green with the RDONLY->RDWR change, I'm still mystified why these machines didn't fail at "make check". Is it possible that "make check" runs the postmaster with fsync disabled? I don't see that in the code anywhere... regards, tom lane