On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >> Perhaps there could be a switch for an fsync interval, or something >> like that. The default could be, say, to fsync every 10 seconds. And >> if you want to change it, then go ahead; 0 disables. Writing to >> standard output would be documented as unreliable. Other ideas >> welcome. > > Hm. That'll be a bit nasty. fsync() is async signal safe, but it's still > forbidden to be called from a signal on windows IIRC. I guess we can > couple it with the standby_message_timeout stuff.
Eh... I don't see any need to involve signals. I'd just check after each write() whether enough time has passed, or something like that. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
