Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: > It might be nice to add new sync_method options, "osync_odirect" and > "odatasync_odirect" for DBAs who think they know enough to tune with > non-defaults.
That would have the benefit that we'd not have to argue with people who liked the current behavior (assuming there are any). I'm not sure there's much technical advantage, but from a political standpoint it might be the easiest sort of change to push through. However, this doesn't really address the question of what a sensible choice of default is. If there's little evidence about whether the current flavor of open_datasync is really the fastest way, there's none whatsoever that establishes open_datasync_without_o_direct being a sane choice of default. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers