Re: [COMMITTERS] Re: pgsql: Speed up CREATE DATABASE by deferring the fsyncs until after

Hi Tom,

On Tuesday 23 February 2010 06:37:26 Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Any theories about what is happening? 
> Now, this doesn't mean that all is fine and dandy.  I believe that a
> majority of Unixen will reject attempts to open directories for writing,
> so this solution puts us even further away from being able to fsync the
> directories.  I would bet however that the platforms that reject this
> are ones that don't need fsync on directories.  Maybe we just have to
> have two different code paths depending on platform :-(
Cool.
You can't open a directory for writing under linux as well though - so that 
wont be the decisive argument. Do you have a better idea than a configure 
test?

Andres