Re: [PATCHES] SRA Win32 sync() code

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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL Win32 port list <pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-11-16T16:36:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Not sure how we are going to do this in Win32, but somehow we will have
> > to record all open files between checkpoints in an area that the
> > checkpoint process can read during a checkpoint.
> 
> One reason I like the idea of adopting a sync-when-you-write policy is
> that it eliminates the need for anything as messy as that.

Yes, but can we do it without causing a performance degredation, and I
would hate to change something to make things easier on Win32 while
penalizing all platforms.

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