Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> As far as #2, my posted proposal was to write the full pages to WAL when
> they are written to the file system, and not when they are first
> modified in the shared buffers ---
That is *completely* unworkable. Or were you planning to abandon the
promise that a transaction is committed when we have flushed its WAL
commit record?
> Seems it is similar to fsync in risk, which is not a new option.
The point here is that fsync-off is only realistic for development
or playpen installations. You don't turn it off in a production
machine, and I can't see that you'd turn off the full-page-write
option either. So we have not solved anyone's performance problem.
regards, tom lane