On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:58:31PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Now thinking about it, the guy had corrupt table, not WAL log.
> > How is WAL->tables synched? Does the 'wal_sync_method'
> > affect it or not?
>
> I *think* it always fsyncs() there as it is now, but I'm not 100% sure.
No. If fsync is off, then no fsync is done to the data files on
checkpoint either. (See mdsync() on src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c)
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