Re: [HACKERS] Priorities for 6.6

> By the way, may I ask more question regarding Oracle? You mentioned
> the magic of no-fsync in Oracle is actually a bug. Ok, I understand. I
> also heard that Oracle does some kind of redo-log bufferings. Does
> this mean certain committed data might be lost if the system crashed
> before the buffered data is written into the disk?

That is my guess.  Informix does that.  No run runs with non-buffered
logging.  They run with buffered logging, which may loose transactions
for a few seconds or minutes before a crash.

I think we need that, and it should be the default, but few people agree
with me.  I have some schemes to do this.

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