Fernando Hevia wrote:
Shouldn't their write performance be more than a trade-off for fsync?
Not if you have sequential writes that are regularly fsync'd--which is exactly how the WAL writes things out in PostgreSQL. I think there's a potential for SSD to reach a point where they can give good performance even with their write caches turned off. But it will require a more robust software stack, like filesystems that really implement the write barrier concept effectively for this use-case, for that to happen.

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