Excerpts from Simon Riggs's message of jue abr 21 05:26:06 -0300 2011: > ISTM that we can easily do this, since we preallocate WAL files during > RemoveOldXlogFiles() and rarely extend the number of files. > So it seems easily possible to fsync the pg_xlog directory at the end > of RemoveOldXlogFiles(), which is mostly performed by the bgwriter > anyway. > > It was also noted that "we've always expected the filesystem to take > care of its own metadata" > which isn't actually stated anywhere in the docs, AFAIK. > > Perhaps this is an irrelevant problem these days, but would it hurt to fix?
I don't think it's irrelevant (yet). Even Greg Smith's book suggests to use ext2 for the WAL partition in extreme cases. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
