Re: Refactoring the checkpointer's fsync request queue - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 2:38 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:

> close() doesn't trigger an fsync() in general

What sort of a performance hit was observed when testing the addition
of fsync or fdatasync before any PostgreSQL close() of a writable
file, or have we not yet checked that?

> https://postgr.es/m/20180427222842.in2e4mibx45zdth5%40alap3.anarazel.de
> is, I think, a good overview, with a bunch of links.

Thanks!  Will review.

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