Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > I remember the other difference between 8.0 and pre-8.0. When a backend > has to write a block in 8.0, it does a write _plus_ fsync(), while in > pre-8.0 it did only a write. There was a proposal to pass backend write > information to the background writer so it would know to fsync at > checkpoint, but it was decided that backend writing would be rare. I > think we have to rethink that assumption.
No, just read the code. The above assertions are all wet. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster