On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> > Yes. If you were doing multiple WAL writes before transaction fsync,
> > you would be fsyncing every write, rather than doing two writes and
> > fsync'ing them both. I wonder if larger transactions would find
> > open_sync slower?
>
> Want me to test? I've got an ide-based test machine here, and the TPCC
> databases.
Just make sure the drive's write cache is disabled.
