Re: Remove fsync ON/OFF as a visible option?

On 3/20/15 2:49 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> How about a big warning around fsync and make it more indepenent from
> the options around it?

+1, and the same for full_page_writes and wal_sync_method. I think 
that's the best we can do at this point.

As for why; Postgres already has a big reputation for being "hard to 
use" and "hard to setup". Leaving footguns laying around that could 
easily be warned about is part of the reason for that reputation. 
Reality is that there are a lot of people using Postgres that are 
nowhere close to being DBAs and making it easy for them to munch their 
data on accident doesn't help anyone.
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