Re: v7.1b4 bad performance

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> How's that again?  7.1 with -F is just as much at the mercy of a system
> crash as previous releases with -F, because it's not fsync'ing the WAL
> log.  In either case, -F is only for those who trust their hardware + OS
> + UPS, or perhaps are running development systems and care more for
> speed than data recoverability.

What if the WAL log is on a partition that is mounted synchronously?

M Carling