On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Justin Clift wrote:
>
> > In PostgreSQL 7.1 though, there is apparently no need to use -F at all.
>
> Why?
> I read on the "todo" list a plan to do fsync less often, but didn't see a
> mention they were doing something so it would have the performance of "-F"
> without it's risks.
>
> What did you read that gave you that impression?
>
from the release notes of v.7.1 beta
Write-Ahead Log (WAL) to provide crash recovery with less performance overhead (Vadim)
that means that only the log has to be written to the disk not the entire
transaction.
- Einar
