Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F250B632D85 for ; Mon, 10 May 2010 21:27:05 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 60727-01 for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 00:26:59 +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 DCFB4632D32 for ; Mon, 10 May 2010 21:26:58 -0300 (ADT) Received: from dsl081-245-111.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.245.111] helo=Sidney-Stratton.local) by glacier.frostconsultingllc.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OBdJG-0006Om-Ev for pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org; Mon, 10 May 2010 17:26:57 -0700 Message-ID: <4BE8A44E.1020209@agliodbs.com> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 17:26:54 -0700 From: Josh Berkus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090223 Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: no universally correct setting for fsync References: <4BE3D3930200002500031382@gw.wicourts.gov> <4BE425F7.30804@dunslane.net> <4BE3E205020000250003138F@gw.wicourts.gov> <4BE86E14.1030707@agliodbs.com> <20100510212135.GG13534@rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <20100510212135.GG13534@rice.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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: 201005/489 X-Sequence-Number: 162152 On 5/10/10 2:21 PM, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote: > 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/ "frequently" I think. Periodically could mean once a year. -- -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://www.pgexperts.com