pgsql: Force pg_database updates out to disk immediately after ALTER

From: tgl(at)svr1(dot)postgresql(dot)org (Tom Lane)
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Force pg_database updates out to disk immediately after ALTER
Date: 2004-11-18 01:14:27
Message-ID: 20041118011427.BA5C53A44D8@svr1.postgresql.org
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Force pg_database updates out to disk immediately after ALTER DATABASE;
this is to avoid scenarios where incoming backends find no live copies
of a database's row because the only live copy is in an as-yet-unwritten
shared buffer, which they can't see. Also, use FlushRelationBuffers()
for forcing out pg_database, instead of the much more expensive BufferSync().
There's no need to write out pages belonging to other relations.

Modified Files:
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pgsql/src/backend/commands:
dbcommands.c (r1.146 -> r1.147)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c.diff?r1=1.146&r2=1.147)

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