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From Thomas Munro
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In response to Re: Checkpoint not retrying failed fsync?  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Thomas Munro
<thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> After some testing, here is a better one for review.

One problem I thought of about 8 milliseconds after clicking send is
that bms_union() may fail to allocate memory and then you're hosed.
Here is a new version that uses bms_join() instead, because that can't
fail.

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Thomas Munro
http://www.enterprisedb.com
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