Re: Volatile write caches on macOS and Windows, redux

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Volatile write caches on macOS and Windows, redux
Date: 2024-03-14 00:12:05
Message-ID: CA+hUKG+gz7ktX4Hu1Qi9R_ac_jpwb0B=281ccT7MvbOkHD9kJg@mail.gmail.com
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Short sales pitch for these patches:

* the default settings eat data on Macs and Windows
* nobody understands what wal_sync_method=fsync_writethrough means anyway
* it's a weird kludge that it affects not only WAL, let's clean that up

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