> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > My question was what are we needing to test? If we can do only single writes
> > to the log, don't we prefer O_* to fsync, and the O_D* options over
> > plain O_*? Am I confused?
>
> I don't think we have enough data to conclude that with any certainty.
I just figured we knew the answers to above issues, that that the only
issue was multiple writes vs. fsync().
It is hard for me to imagine O_* being slower than fsync(), or fdatasync
being slower than fsync. Are we not able to assume that?
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