"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> There are just as many people that are running with scissors that are
> now running (or attempting to run) our elephant in production.
Evidence please.
> Does it
> make sense to remove fsync (and possibly full_page_writes) from such a
> visible place as postgresql.conf?
> I don't think we should remove the features themselves but perhaps only
> have them settable via the new alter system command?
I would object to that, because it would make it vastly more difficult
to use fsync=off easily for development.
regards, tom lane