From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndQuadrant.com>
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Subject: Re: 9.6 and fsync=off
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Comments: In-reply-to Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndQuadrant.com>
	message dated "Fri, 29 Apr 2016 12:05:14 +0530"
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:49:07 -0400
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Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> Do you want a patch along those lines now, or is it too late?

We're certainly not going to consider fooling with this in 9.6.
The situation for manual fsync-twiddling is no worse than it was in
any prior release, and we are long past feature freeze.

If you want to put it on your to-do queue for 9.7, feel free.

			regards, tom lane


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