Re: Proposal for 9.1: WAL streaming from WAL buffers

Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>

From: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-08T07:51:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What was the final decision on behavior if fsync=off?
>
> I'm not sure we made any decision, per se, but if you use fsync=off in
> combination with SR and experience an unexpected crash-and-reboot on
> the master, you will be sad.

True. But, without SR, an unexpected crash-and-reboot in the master
would make you sad ;) So I'm not sure whether we really need to take
action for the case of SR + fsync=off.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
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