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Message-ID: <202509031553.wvk2rr2cighm@alvherre.pgsql> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk On 2025-Sep-02, Jeff Davis wrote: > The good news is that io_uring seemed to solve the problem. > Unfortunately, that's platform-specific, so it can't be the default. Why not? We have had wal_sync_method with a platform-dependent default for a very long time. -- Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/