AW: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas SB
Subject AW: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC
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Msg-id 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA687963368250@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> Okay ... we can fall back to O_FSYNC if we don't see either of the
> others.  No problem.  Any other weird cases out there?  I think Andreas
> might've muttered something about AIX but I'm not sure now.

You can safely use O_DSYNC on AIX, the only special on AIX is,
that it does not make a speed difference to O_SYNC. This is imho
because the jfs only needs one sync write to the jfs journal for meta info 
in eighter case (so that nobody misunderstands: both perform excellent).

Andreas


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