Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B27A2E0049 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 15:45:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 79860-04 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 15:45:16 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E0852E0041 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 15:45:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m4HIjGUW000258; Sat, 17 May 2008 14:45:16 -0400 (EDT) To: "Jaime Casanova" cc: pgsql-bugs@postgreSQL.org Subject: Re: [DOCS] wal_sync_method In-reply-to: References: <27471.1211043309@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to "Jaime Casanova" message dated "Sat, 17 May 2008 13:27:48 -0500" Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 14:45:16 -0400 Message-ID: <257.1211049916@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200805/104 X-Sequence-Number: 20537 [ redirecting to -bugs ] "Jaime Casanova" writes: > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> "Jaime Casanova" writes: >>> But in my freshly 8.3.1 instalation on win xp, the default is >>> "fsync"... is a *bug* in the docs :) >> >> More like a bug in the code. Does it let you set the value to >> open_datasync? > yes it does... Well, that's just bizarre. I found a problem in CVS HEAD that would lead to a bogus selection of the default for wal_sync_method, but it doesn't apply to 8.3. I really don't see how 8.3 would fail to use open_datasync as the default if it's an available value. Did you build 8.3.1 yourself, and if so how? regards, tom lane