Re: Filesystem Direct I/O and WAL sync option

From: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Cc: "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Dimitri <dimitrik(dot)fr(at)gmail(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL Performance" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Filesystem Direct I/O and WAL sync option
Date: 2007-07-09 20:46:32
Message-ID: 36e682920707091346w49824ac6x65c8adddbaa0ef7@mail.gmail.com
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On 7/9/07, Jim C. Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> wrote:
> BTW, it might be worth trying the different wal_sync_methods. IIRC,
> Jonah's seen some good results from open_datasync.

On Linux, using ext3, reiser, or jfs, I've seen open_sync perform
quite better than fsync/fdatasync in most of my tests. But, I haven't
done significant testing with direct I/O lately.

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