On 1 June 2012 14:29, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Surely that commit is useless. Fsync requests go into a queue in shared > memory, which had better have been set up by the postmaster. There is > no requirement that the receiving process exist before somebody can put > a request into the queue. If the queue overflows, the requestor has to > take care of the fsync itself, but that is independent of whether the > checkpointer is running yet.
The problem I saw was about fsync queue message overflow, not actually missing fsyncs, so perhaps I worded the commit message poorly. -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
