Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B5C632D0E for ; Mon, 10 May 2010 18:21:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22301-02 for ; Mon, 10 May 2010 21:21:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from cooker.cnx.rice.edu (cooker.cnx.rice.edu [168.7.5.70]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE4A96321B3 for ; Mon, 10 May 2010 18:21:37 -0300 (ADT) Received: from reedstrm by cooker.cnx.rice.edu with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OBaPv-0001V8-Uo for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Mon, 10 May 2010 16:21:35 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:21:35 -0500 From: "Ross J. Reedstrom" To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: no universally correct setting for fsync Message-ID: <20100510212135.GG13534@rice.edu> Mail-Followup-To: "Ross J. Reedstrom" , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org References: <4BE3D3930200002500031382@gw.wicourts.gov> <4BE425F7.30804@dunslane.net> <4BE3E205020000250003138F@gw.wicourts.gov> <4BE86E14.1030707@agliodbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BE86E14.1030707@agliodbs.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.011 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_20=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201005/485 X-Sequence-Number: 162148 On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 01:35:32PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > deleted, > or on a reporting read-only clone of your database which gets > recreated very > night and is not used for failover. High quality hardware alone s/very/every/ or s/very night/periodically/ Ross -- Ross Reedstrom, Ph.D. reedstrm@rice.edu Systems Engineer & Admin, Research Scientist phone: 713-348-6166 The Connexions Project http://cnx.org fax: 713-348-3665 Rice University MS-375, Houston, TX 77005 GPG Key fingerprint = F023 82C8 9B0E 2CC6 0D8E F888 D3AE 810E 88F0 BEDE