Re: [HACKERS] WAL and commit_delay

[Dominic J. Eidson]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Another thing I am wondering about is why we're not using fdatasync(),
> where available, instead of fsync().  The whole point of preallocating
> the WAL files is to make fdatasync safe, no?

Linux/x86 fdatasync(2) manpage:

BUGS
       Currently (Linux 2.0.23) fdatasync is equivalent to fsync.


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