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Re: [PATCHES] SRA Win32 sync() code

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL Win32 port list <pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-11-16T16:32:59Z
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Not sure how we are going to do this in Win32, but somehow we will have
> to record all open files between checkpoints in an area that the
> checkpoint process can read during a checkpoint.

One reason I like the idea of adopting a sync-when-you-write policy is
that it eliminates the need for anything as messy as that.

			regards, tom lane