AW: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Ken Hirsch'" <kenhirsch(at)myself(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: AW: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC
Date: 2001-03-16 17:14:29
Message-ID: 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA687963368252@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> For a log file on a busy system, this could improve throughput a lot--batch
> commit. You end up with fewer than one fsync() per transaction.

This is not the issue, since that is already implemented.
The current bunching method might have room for improvement, but
there are currently fewer fsync's than transactions when appropriate.

Andreas

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