Horton

Re: SET FSYNC command?

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2000-05-31T01:33:16Z
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> In 7.0 release note, we have:
> 
> 	Add SET FSYNC and SHOW PG_OPTIONS commands(Massimo)
> 
> I'm confused by this since we don't seem to have SET FSYNC command.
> 
> test=# set fsync to on;
> NOTICE:  Unrecognized variable fsync
> SET VARIABLE
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> Also if we have that command, I wonder it would be safe to issue on
> the fly.

Gee, I think we removed it because we thought it would be unsafe, but
then Tom Lane made it safe, forgot to re-enable it.

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