> The reason I'm inclined to question this is that what we want > is not an fsync per write but an fsync per transaction, and we can't > easily buffer all of a transaction's XLOG writes... WAL keeps records in WAL buffers (wal-buffers parameter may be used to increase # of buffers), so we can make write()-s buffered. Seems that my Solaris has fdatasync, so I'll test different approaches... Vadim ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster