On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 9:10 PM Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@oss.nttdata.com> wrote: > Thanks for the patch! > > + When set to <literal>fsync</literal>, which is the default, > + <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> will recursively open and fsync > + all files in the data directory before crash recovery begins. > > Isn't this a bit misleading? This may cause users to misunderstand that > such fsync can happen only in the case of crash recovery.
If I insert the following extra sentence after that one, is it better? "This applies whenever starting a database cluster that did not shut down cleanly, including copies created with pg_basebackup."
