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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
To: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Allow using syncfs() in frontend utilities.
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:18:57 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+TgmobUiqKr+ZMCLc5Qap-sXBnjfGUU+ZBmzYEjUuWyjsGr1g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <[email protected]>
	<CA+TgmobUiqKr+ZMCLc5Qap-sXBnjfGUU+ZBmzYEjUuWyjsGr1g@mail.gmail.com>

On 22.03.24 17:52, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 7:28 PM Nathan Bossart <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Allow using syncfs() in frontend utilities.
>>
>> This commit allows specifying a --sync-method in several frontend
>> utilities that must synchronize many files to disk (initdb,
>> pg_basebackup, pg_checksums, pg_dump, pg_rewind, and pg_upgrade).
>> On Linux, users can specify "syncfs" to synchronize the relevant
>> file systems instead of calling fsync() for every single file.  In
>> many cases, using syncfs() is much faster.
>>
>> As with recovery_init_sync_method, this new option comes with some
>> caveats.  The descriptions of these caveats have been moved to a
>> new appendix section in the documentation.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to complain about this commit's addition of a new appendix.

I already complained about that at 
<https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]; 
and some follow-up was announced but didn't happen.  It was on my list 
to look into cleaning up during beta.

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