Re: Simplifying wal_sync_method

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2005-08-08T22:27:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce,

> No one is every going to do it, so we might as well make the best guess
> we have.  I think any platform where the *data* options are slower than
> the non-*data* options is broken, and if that logic holds, we might as
> well just use *data* by default if we can, which is my proposal.

Changing the defaults is fine with me.    I just don't think that we can 
afford to prune options without more testing.   And we will be getting 
more testing (from companies) in the future, so I don't think this is 
completely out of the question.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco