"Kevin Grittner" <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> writes:
> Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I think that what Kevin was on about was something else entirely,
>> namely whether we need to retry writes to disk.
 
> I would phrase it that we need to *continue* a write to disk if the
> OS chooses to write a portion of it and return to the caller with
> the number actually written.  If the first write, or any later
> write, actually gets an error or fails to make progress, *then* we
> should consider the attempt to be done.  I don't understand the
> point of not coding to the API.

My point here is just that that's a different discussion.  You are not
talking about places where this new compiler warning is getting raised.

                        regards, tom lane

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