Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Notice we never default to open_sync.  However, on Win32, Magnus got a
> > 60% speedup by using open_sync, implemented using
> > FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH.  Now, because this the fastest on Win32, I
> > think we should default to open_sync on Win32.  The attached patch
> > implements this.
> 
> ... and breaks open_datasync for all other platforms ...

Oh, fixed.

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Index: src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c,v
retrieving revision 1.181
diff -c -c -r1.181 xlog.c
*** src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c   12 Feb 2005 23:53:37 -0000      1.181
--- src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c   17 Mar 2005 04:31:32 -0000
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*** 69,74 ****
--- 69,79 ----
  #endif
  #endif
  
+ #if defined(WIN32)    /* Fastest on Win32 using FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH */
+ #define DEFAULT_SYNC_METHOD_STR    "open_sync"
+ #define DEFAULT_SYNC_METHOD              SYNC_METHOD_OPEN
+ #define DEFAULT_SYNC_FLAGBIT     OPEN_SYNC_FLAG
+ #else
  #if defined(OPEN_DATASYNC_FLAG)
  #define DEFAULT_SYNC_METHOD_STR    "open_datasync"
  #define DEFAULT_SYNC_METHOD              SYNC_METHOD_OPEN
***************
*** 84,89 ****
--- 89,95 ----
  #define DEFAULT_SYNC_FLAGBIT    0
  #endif
  #endif
+ #endif
  
  
  /* User-settable parameters */
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