Re: further testing on IDE drives

>>>>> "BM" == Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

>> Sounds reasonable to me.  Are there many / any scenarios where a plain
>> fsync would be faster than open_sync?

BM> Yes.  If you were doing multiple WAL writes before transaction fsync,
BM> you would be fsyncing every write, rather than doing two writes and
BM> fsync'ing them both.  I wonder if larger transactions would find
BM> open_sync slower?

consider loading a large database from a backup dump.  one big
transaction during the COPY.  I don't know the implications it has on
this scenario, though.

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