Re: 9.6 and fsync=off - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: 9.6 and fsync=off
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Msg-id CAKFQuwbDxCxiTGa6wqA1Mx5Y44c6pBg3t6jmRqDg-6J1beG8YQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: 9.6 and fsync=off  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
Responses Re: 9.6 and fsync=off  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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On Thursday, April 28, 2016, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
On 27 April 2016 at 17:04, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
On 27 April 2016 at 21:44, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> +1 (Abhijit's wording with data loss changed to data corruption)

I'd suggest something like

#fsync = on                             # flush data to disk for crash safety
                                        # (turning this off can cause
                                        # unrecoverable data corruption!)


Looks good.

The docs on fsync are already good, it's just a matter of making people think twice and actually look at them. 

If fsync=off and you turn it on, does it fsync anything at that point?

Or does it mean only that future fsyncs will occur?


http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-config-wal.html

4th paragraph in the fsync section.

David J.

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