Re: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-03-15T21:40:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane writes:

> However, I can actually make a case for this: we are flushing out
> performance bugs in a new feature, ie WAL.

I haven't followed the jungle of numbers too closely.

Is it not the case that WAL + fsync is still faster than 7.0 + fsync and
WAL/no fsync is still faster than 7.0/no fsync?

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