Re: further testing on IDE drives

>>>>> "BM" == Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

>> Sounds reasonable to me. Are there many / any scenarios where a plain
>> fsync would be faster than open_sync?

BM> Yes. If you were doing multiple WAL writes before transaction fsync,
BM> you would be fsyncing every write, rather than doing two writes and
BM> fsync'ing them both. I wonder if larger transactions would find
BM> open_sync slower?

consider loading a large database from a backup dump. one big
transaction during the COPY. I don't know the implications it has on
this scenario, though.

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