On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> wrote: > One idea is to provide the utility or extension which fsync's the specified > files and directories (including all the files under them). It may be > overkill, > though. But it would be useful for other purposes, for example, we can > improve the durability of archived WAL files by setting this utility in > archive_command, and we can flush any output files generated by psql > by using it.
That's the pg_copy utility that we talked a couple of months (year(s)?) back, which would really be useful for archiving, and the main advantage is that it would be cross-platform. Still the patch discussed here is more targeted, this makes sure that once pg_dump leaves, things created are on disk, facilitating the life of users by not involving an extra step and by making the safe behavior the default. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
