Re: EINTR error in SunOS

[Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>]

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 14:40 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> > Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu> writes:
> >> I have patched IO routines in backend/storage that POSIX says EINTR is
> >> possible except unlink(). Though POSIX says EINTR is not possible, during
> >> many regressions, I found it sometimes sets this errno on NFS (I still
> >> don't know where is the smoking-gun):
> 
> > Well there is a reason intr is not the default for NFS mounts. It's precisely
> > because it breaks the traditional unix filesystem interface.

> What I'd rather do is document prominently that running a DB over NFS
> isn't recommended, and running it over NFS with interrupts allowed is
> just not going to work.

Are there issues with having an archive_command which does things with
NFS based filesystems?

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