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

> Based on the tests we did last week, it seems clear than on many
> platforms it's a win to sync the WAL log by writing it with open()
> option O_SYNC (or O_DSYNC where available) rather than issuing explicit
> fsync() (resp. fdatasync()) calls.  In theory fsync ought to be faster,
> but it seems that too many kernels have inefficient implementations of
> fsync.

Can someone explain why configure/platform-specific flags are allowed to
be added at this stage in the release, but my pgmonitor patch was
rejected?

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