RE: AW: AW: WAL does not recover gracefully from out-of -dis k-sp ace

From: "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>
To: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: AW: AW: WAL does not recover gracefully from out-of -dis k-sp ace
Date: 2001-03-09 20:08:54
Message-ID: 8F4C99C66D04D4118F580090272A7A234D3305@sectorbase1.sectorbase.com
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> The reason I'm inclined to question this is that what we want
> is not an fsync per write but an fsync per transaction, and we can't
> easily buffer all of a transaction's XLOG writes...

WAL keeps records in WAL buffers (wal-buffers parameter may be used to
increase # of buffers), so we can make write()-s buffered.

Seems that my Solaris has fdatasync, so I'll test different approaches...

Vadim

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