>>>>> "BM" == Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Sounds reasonable to me. Are there many / any scenarios where a plain >> fsync would be faster than open_sync? BM> Yes. If you were doing multiple WAL writes before transaction fsync, BM> you would be fsyncing every write, rather than doing two writes and BM> fsync'ing them both. I wonder if larger transactions would find BM> open_sync slower? consider loading a large database from a backup dump. one big transaction during the COPY. I don't know the implications it has on this scenario, though. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
