Re: Replication

On 8/21/06, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> But the confirmation that needs to come is that the WAL changes have
> been applied (fsync'ed), so the performance will be terrible.  So bad,
> that I don't think anyone will want to use such a replication system ...

Okay. I give up... Why is waiting for fsync on a fast local network
which takes 15us to send a message (infiniband is cheap..) an
unimaginable delay when we tolerate a local 8ms fsync delay on systems
without writeback cache?