Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Re: [HACKERS] Fairly serious bug induced by latest guc enum changes

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Right, but I still need the other part of the check, right? This one
> still fails the same check as my patch, no? Because I assume the hole
> you found there was that get_sync_bit() will return 0 for two different
> sync methods as long as none of them are O_SYNC or O_DSYNC...

No, my point was that there are three possible states of sync_bit and
your patch only accounted for transitions between two of 'em. For
instance, if sync_bit goes to 0 we must close and reopen the file,
else we'll be doing both O_SYNC flush and whatever flush method
is supposed to be getting used.

regards, tom lane

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