Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> > Now doing fsync() or fdatasync() of possibly dozens of files in a row,
> > forcing the kernel to do one scattered file after another, letting the
> > disk heads dance like step-chicken on a hot tin ... that will be an
> > improvement, oh boy.
>
> I'm not convinced it would be so bad. Normally you'd only be issuing
> those operations at checkpoint time, and if the bgwriter has been doing
Agreed, I don't have a problem with fsync() during checkpoint instead of
sync. I had problems with fsync from the background writer and
performance. Let me post ideas to hackers & win32 list.
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