On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 4:18 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > On 2016-11-08 18:18:01 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> I think this might be better addressed by adding something to backup.sgml >> pointing out that you'd better fsync or sync your backups before assuming >> that they can't be lost. > > How does a normal user do that? I don't think there's a cross-platform > advice we can give, and even on *nix the answer basically is 'sync; > sync;' which is a pretty big hammer, and might be completely > unacceptable on a busy server.
Yeah, that's a pretty fair point. I see the point of this patch pretty clearly but somehow it makes me nervous anyway. I'm not sure there's any better alternative to what's being proposed, though. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
