Re: PostgreSQL on VMWare vs Windows vs CoLinux - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PostgreSQL on VMWare vs Windows vs CoLinux
Date
Msg-id 16587.1086234685@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL on VMWare vs Windows vs CoLinux  ("Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com>)
List pgsql-performance
"Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com> writes:
> ... Right now the win32 native does
> not sync() (but does fsync()).  So, the performance is somewhere between
> fsync = off and fsync = on (probably much closer to fsync = on).  It is
> reasonable to assume that the win32 port will outperform the unix
> versions at many tasks (at the expense of safety) until the new sync()
> code is put in.

... which was three days ago.  Why are we still speculating?

            regards, tom lane

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