On 4/12/22 15:58, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2022 at 08:46, Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> With that... I've finally pushed the 0002 patch and will be watching >> the build farm. > > This is a nice feature if it is safe to turn off full_page_writes. > > When is it safe to do that? On which platform? > > I am not aware of any released software that allows full_page_writes > to be safely disabled. Perhaps something has been released recently > that allows this? I think we have substantial documentation about > safety of other settings, so we should carefully document things here > also. >
I don't see why/how would an async prefetch make FPW unnecessary. Did anyone claim that be the case? regards -- Tomas Vondra EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
