Re: [DOCS] wal_sync_method

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> [ redirecting to -bugs ]
>
> "Jaime Casanova" <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> "Jaime Casanova" <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>>> But in my freshly 8.3.1 instalation on win xp, the default is
>>>> "fsync"... is a *bug* in the docs :)
>>>
>>> More like a bug in the code. Does it let you set the value to
>>> open_datasync?
>
>> yes it does...
>
> Well, that's just bizarre. I found a problem in CVS HEAD that would
> lead to a bogus selection of the default for wal_sync_method, but it
> doesn't apply to 8.3. I really don't see how 8.3 would fail to use
> open_datasync as the default if it's an available value. Did you
> build 8.3.1 yourself, and if so how?
>

nop, default installer downloaded from postgresql.org...

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Jaime Casanova
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