Re: Filesystem Direct I/O and WAL sync option

On 7/9/07, Jim C. Nasby <decibel@decibel.org> wrote:
> BTW, it might be worth trying the different wal_sync_methods. IIRC,
> Jonah's seen some good results from open_datasync.

On Linux, using ext3, reiser, or jfs, I've seen open_sync perform
quite better than fsync/fdatasync in most of my tests.  But, I haven't
done significant testing with direct I/O lately.

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