bgwriter update question - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Mark Steben
Subject bgwriter update question
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Msg-id 000901c814d4$51163010$b501a8c0@D1RPQZB1
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Responses Re: bgwriter update question  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I'm running on 7.4.5 (pre bgwriter) and moving to 8.2 in 3 weeks. I turn fsync off on my testing server. When I update a table I expect the file in the base directory to remain the same size until the next syncpoint when it would then update. But it increases immediately. I thought updates remain in memory until syncpoint in pre-8.0. Am I missing somethng?

 

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