Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548A56328A4 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 14:56:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 68823-08 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 17:56:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from glacier.frostconsultingllc.com (glacier.frostconsultingllc.com [69.36.227.170]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37778632545 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 14:56:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: from dsl081-245-111.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.245.111] helo=[192.168.1.118]) by glacier.frostconsultingllc.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OARmY-0007ca-C4 for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Fri, 07 May 2010 10:56:16 -0700 Message-ID: <4BE4543D.8010309@agliodbs.com> Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 10:56:13 -0700 From: Josh Berkus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9pre) Gecko/20100217 Shredder/3.0.3pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: no universally correct setting for fsync References: <4BE3D3930200002500031382@gw.wicourts.gov> <4BE425F7.30804@dunslane.net> <4BE3E205020000250003138F@gw.wicourts.gov> In-Reply-To: <4BE3E205020000250003138F@gw.wicourts.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201005/371 X-Sequence-Number: 162034 > I never meant to suggest any statement in that section is factually > wrong; it's just all too rosy, leading people to believe it's no big > deal to turn it off. Yeah, that section is overdue for an update. I'll write some new text and post it to pgsql-docs. -- -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://www.pgexperts.com