PostgreSQL's handling of fsync() errors is unsafe and risks data loss at least on XFS

1 · Dan Luu · July 12, 2019, 7:15 p.m.
This is an archive of the original "fsyncgate" email thread. This is posted here because I wanted to have a link that would fit on a slide for a talk, but didn't want to use a link shortner Lists:pgsql-hackers From:Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> To:PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> Subject:PostgreSQL's handling of fsync() errors is unsafe and risks data loss at least on XFS Date:2018-03-28 02:23:46 Message-ID:CAMsr+YHh+5Oq4xziwwoEfhoTZgr07vdGG+hu=1adXx59aTeaoQ...