Re: fdatasync performance problem with large number of DB files

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 09:54:11AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 11:19:13PM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 8:52 PM Paul Guo <guopa@vmware.com> wrote:
> > > About the syncfs patch, my first impression on the guc name sync_after_crash
> > > is that it is a boolean type. Not sure about other people's feeling. Do you guys think
> > > It is better to rename it to a clearer name like sync_method_after_crash or others?
> > 
> > Works for me.  Here is a new version like that, also including the
> > documentation change discussed with Fujii-san, and a couple of
> > cosmetic changes.
> 
> Are we sure we want to use the word "crash" here?  I don't remember
> seeing it used anywhere else in our user interface.  I guess it is
> "crash recovery".

Maybe call it "recovery_sync_method"?

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