Re: bad performance on Solaris 10

Jignesh K. Shah wrote:
>
> Bruce,
>
> Hard to answer that... People like me who know and love PostgreSQL and
> Solaris finds this as an opportunity to make their favorite database
> work best on their favorite operating system.
>
> Many times PostgreSQL has many things based on assumption that it will
> run on  Linux and it is left to Solaris to emulate that behavior.That
> said there are ways to improve performance even on UFS on Solaris, it
> just requires more tweaks.
>
> Hopefully this will lead to few Solaris friendly default values  like
> fsync/odatasync :-)

Yes, if someone wants to give us a clear answer on which wal_sync method
is best on all versions of Solaris, we can easily make that change.

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