Re: Simplifying wal_sync_method

Marko Kreen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 03:56:39PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Currently, here are the options available for wal_sync_method:
> >
> > #wal_sync_method = fsync # the default varies across platforms:
> > # fsync, fdatasync, fsync_writethrough,
> > # open_sync, open_datasync
>
> On same topic:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-07/msg00811.php
>
> Why does win32 PostgreSQL allow data corruption by default?

It behaves the same on Unix as Win32, and if you have battery-backed
cache, you don't need writethrough, so we don't have it as default. I
am going to write a section in the manual for 8.1 about these
reliability issues.

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