Re: Re: WAL and commit_delay

* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [010218 10:53]:
> Adriaan Joubert <a.joubert@albourne.com> writes:
> > fdatasync() is available on Tru64 and according to the man-page behaves
> > as Tom expects. So it should be a win for us.
> 
> Careful ... HPUX's man page also claims that fdatasync does something
> useful, but it doesn't.  I'd recommend an experiment.  Does today's
> snapshot run any faster for you (without -F) than before?
BTW, UnixWare 7.1.1 does *NOT* have fdatasync.  What standard created
this one? 


> 
>             regards, tom lane
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