Hi, and thanks for responding,
> First off- please try to craft a new email in the future...
My apologies to you and the group - I'll do that in future.
> > 1) Is my lecturer full of it or does he really have a point?
> He's full of it, as far as I can tell anyway, based on what you've
> shared with us. Just look at the committers and the commit history to
> PostgreSQL, and look at who the largest contributors are and who they
> work for. That alone might be enough to surprise your lecturer with.
The only non-PostgreSQL company that I could find was Fujitisu - where
can I find a (list of) the others?
> Databases that do direct I/O don't depend on fsync. That said, I do
> think this could have been an issue for Oracle if you ran it without
> direct i/o.
I think that Oracle are big into asyncio? I know that you have to sudo
dnf install some_library with a name like asio/asyncio or something
like that?
Anyway, why doesn't PostgreSQL use Direct I/O?
Thanks again and rgs,
Pól...
> Stephen