Horton

Re: Simplifying wal_sync_method

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

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From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2005-08-08T22:22:14Z
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>>>I think we should offer the reliable option by default, and mention the
>>>fast option for those who have battery-backed cache in the manual.
>>
>>But only on Win32?
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> Yes, because that's the only place where that option works, right?

fsync_writethrough only works on Win32 the postgresql.conf should 
reflect that.

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