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Re: Final(?) proposal for wal_sync_method changes

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-12-07T22:43:29Z
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On 12/7/10 2:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Another point here is that it's not clear why we're selecting a
> known-to-be-insecure default on OS X (where in fact all methods except
> fsync_writethrough fail to push data to disk).  We've been around on
> that before, of course, and maybe now is not the time to change it.

Because nobody sane uses OSX on the server?

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