> In short, if you load a bunch of tuples into a table, the first select
> after the load can run a lot slower than you might expect, because it'll
> be writing back most or all of the pages it touches. But that penalty
> doesn't affect every select, only the first one to scan a newly-written
> tuple.
I have removed this from the TODO list:
* Prevent fsync in SELECT-only queries
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