Re: Final(?) proposal for wal_sync_method changes

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Final(?) proposal for wal_sync_method changes
Date: 2010-12-07 22:43:29
Message-ID: 4CFEB891.2030309@agliodbs.com
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On 12/7/10 2:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Another point here is that it's not clear why we're selecting a
> known-to-be-insecure default on OS X (where in fact all methods except
> fsync_writethrough fail to push data to disk). We've been around on
> that before, of course, and maybe now is not the time to change it.

Because nobody sane uses OSX on the server?

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