Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Do you mean "written to disk", or written out from shared_buffers to
> disk cache ?
>
The later turns into the former eventually, so both really. The kernel
will do some amount of write combining for you if you're lucky. But not
in all cases; it may decide to write something out to physical disk
before the second write shows up.
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