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Make CREATE DATABASE safe against losing whole files by fsyncing the 

directory and not just the individual files.

Back-patch to 8.1 -- before that we just called "cp -r" and never
fsynced anything anyways.
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Greg Stark 2010-02-14 17:50:52 +00:00
parent a05af1d404
commit 1012492bc0
1 changed files with 22 additions and 1 deletions
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src/port/copydir.c
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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
* as a service.
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/port/copydir.c,v 1.24 2010/01/02 16:58:13 momjian Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/port/copydir.c,v 1.25 2010/02/14 17:50:52 stark Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ copydir(char *fromdir, char *todir, bool recurse)
{
DIR *xldir;
struct dirent *xlde;
int dirfd;
char fromfile[MAXPGPATH];
char tofile[MAXPGPATH];
@ -91,6 +92,26 @@ copydir(char *fromdir, char *todir, bool recurse)
}
FreeDir(xldir);
/*
* fsync the directory to make sure not just the data but also the
* new directory file entries have reached the disk. While needed
* by most filesystems, the window got bigger with newer ones like
* ext4.
*/
dirfd = BasicOpenFile(todir,
O_RDONLY | PG_BINARY,
S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
if(dirfd == -1)
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode_for_file_access(),
errmsg("could not open directory for fsync \"%s\": %m", todir)));
if(pg_fsync(dirfd) == -1)
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode_for_file_access(),
errmsg("could not fsync directory \"%s\": %m", todir)));
close(dirfd);
}
/*