>> Patch applied. Thanks. >> >> I assume this is not approprate for 8.0.X. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> Magnus Hagander wrote: >>> > Magnus prepared a trivial patch which added the O_SYNC flag >>> > for windows and mapped it to FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH in >>> > win32_open.c. >>> >>> Attached is this trivial patch. As Merlin says, it needs some more >>> reliability testing. But the numbers are at least reasonable - it >>> *seems* like it's doing the right thing (as long as you >turn off write >>> cache). And it's certainly a significant performance increase - it >>> brings the speed almost up to the same as linux. > > >The original patch did not have any documentation. Have you >added some? >Since this has to be configured in GUC (wal_sync_method), the >implications >should be documented somewhere, no?
The patch just implements behaviour that was already documented (for unix) on a new platform (win32). The documentation in general appears to have very little information on what to pick there, though ;-) //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
