Re: Final(?) proposal for wal_sync_method changes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 12/7/10 2:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Another point here is that it's not clear why we're selecting a
> known-to-be-insecure default on OS X (where in fact all methods except
> fsync_writethrough fail to push data to disk).  We've been around on
> that before, of course, and maybe now is not the time to change it.

Because nobody sane uses OSX on the server?

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