Re: fsync-pgdata-on-recovery tries to write to more files than previously - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Abhijit Menon-Sen
Subject Re: fsync-pgdata-on-recovery tries to write to more files than previously
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In response to Re: fsync-pgdata-on-recovery tries to write to more files than previously  (Andres Freund <[email protected]>)
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At 2015-05-26 19:07:20 +0200, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Abhijit, do you recall why the code was changed to follow all symlinks
> in contrast to explicitly going through the tablespaces as initdb -S
> does? I'm pretty sure early versions of the patch pretty much had a
> verbatim copy of the initdb logic?

Yes, earlier versions of the patch did follow symlinks only in
pg_tblspc. I changed this because Álvaro pointed out that this
was likely to miss important stuff, e.g. in

[email protected],
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-- Abhijit



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