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From Mikheev, Vadim
Subject RE: Re[4]: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC
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In response to Re[4]: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC  (Xu Yifeng <jamexu@telekbird.com.cn>)
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> We've speculated about using Posix semaphores instead, on platforms

For spinlocks we should use pthread mutex-es.

> where those are available.  I think Bruce was concerned about the

And nutex-es are more portable than semaphores.

Vadim

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