Re: Question for the developers.

suchindra@linuxlabs.com wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  I am Suchindra Katageri and am working as a Software Engineer at
>  Linuxlabs, Atlanta, GA.
>  
>  I am presently working on developing libraries to make postgresql
>  run on a cluster. I was wondering if it was possible to force Database
>  writes to stable storage, without messing up with the postgres code.
>  e.g. force the PostgreSQL to write to stable storage after an INSERT
>  command.

For stable storage, you mean disk storage?  You need fsync for that,
probably, but we already fsync our write-ahead log (WAL) on every
commit.

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