Re: Fairly serious bug induced by latest guc enum changes

Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Okay, but you failed to correctly reproduce the conditions for
> > closing the old file.
> 
> A more bulletproof solution might involve passing sync_method to
> get_sync_bit as an explicit parameter, and then the assign hook
> could do
> 	if (get_sync_bit(sync_method) !=
> get_sync_bit(new_sync_method)) XLogFileClose();

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...

//Magnus

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