On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 14:40 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Qingqing Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I have patched IO routines in backend/storage that POSIX says EINTR is > >> possible except unlink(). Though POSIX says EINTR is not possible, during > >> many regressions, I found it sometimes sets this errno on NFS (I still > >> don't know where is the smoking-gun): > > > Well there is a reason intr is not the default for NFS mounts. It's > > precisely > > because it breaks the traditional unix filesystem interface.
> What I'd rather do is document prominently that running a DB over NFS > isn't recommended, and running it over NFS with interrupts allowed is > just not going to work. Are there issues with having an archive_command which does things with NFS based filesystems? -- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly