Re: Simplifying wal_sync_method

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 17:03 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> That's a decision that hasn't got a shred of evidence to justify
> imposing it on every platform.

This option has its uses on Linux, however.  In my testing it's good for
a large speedup (20%) on a 10-client pgbench, and a minor improvement
with 100 clients.  See my mail of July 14th "O_DIRECT for WAL writes".

-jwb