Re: [HACKERS] Postgres Speed or lack thereof - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> > What the -F switch actually does is to disable calls to fsync(2),
> > thereby allowing modified file blocks to hang around in kernel

Could you use an mmapped file and flush it according to some algorythm?  
Hard on memory but fast.

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