didier wrote:
> On many Linux systems it may not do that much (2.6.32 and 3.2 are bad,
> 3.13 is better but still it slows the fsync).
>
> If there's a fsync in progress WALReceiver will:
> 1- slow the fsync because its writes to the same file are grabbed by the fsync
> 2- stall until the end of fsync.
Is this behavior filesystem-dependent?
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