Re: Maximum transaction rate

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Ben Chobot <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Maximum transaction rate
Date: 2009-03-13 18:43:30
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On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 11:41 -0700, Ben Chobot wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Of course. But if you can't reliably flush the OS buffers (because, say,
> you're using LVM so fsync() doesn't work), then you can't say what
> actually has made it to the safety of the raid card.

Good point. So the next question of course is, does EVMS do it right?

http://evms.sourceforge.net/

This is actually a pretty significant issue.

Joshua D. Drake

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