--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Ah-hah. The win32 hackers should confirm this, but
> my recollection is
> that sync/fsync are no-ops under Cygwin (one of the
> several reasons
> we would never recommend that port for production
> use). So this would
> fit the assumption that the 7.4 code was simply not
> syncing.
>
Sounds reasonable. However, I don't see the same
performance hit while doing bulk database operations
(ie: inserts, deletes, updates). Is that expected
behavior? Do vacuum operations fsync()/_commit() more
often?
Regards,
Shelby Cain
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