Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of lun oct 25 23:37:31 -0300 2010: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Alvaro Herrera > <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > Hmm, my manpage says that open() could fail with EINVAL if O_DIRECT is > > used and not supported by the filesystem. We use O_DIRECT in some > > wal_sync_method configurations. Maybe the Ubuntu live is not getting > > that flag right. > If this really is caused by a WAL setting that's incompatible with the > filesystem, maybe we should add a HINT. This makes two reports today, > plus apparently at least one more on the Ubuntu sight. Maybe we should retry the syscall without the flag in the EINVAL case. It's not a critical flag for correctness, just desired for performance. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
