On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Also, could the "-F" option be disabled now that WAL is enabled? Or is
> > > there still some reason to encourage/allow folks to use it?
> >
> > I was the one who put it back i
> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Also, could the "-F" option be disabled now that WAL is enabled? Or is
> > > there still some reason to encourage/allow folks to use it?
> >
> > I was the one who put it back in after Vadim turned it off ;-) ... and
> > I'
Tom Lane writes:
> Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Also, could the "-F" option be disabled now that WAL is enabled? Or is
> > there still some reason to encourage/allow folks to use it?
>
> I was the one who put it back in after Vadim turned it off ;-) ... and
> I'll object to any
> > It removes the need to disable fsync to get best performance!
>
> -F performance is still better, only the difference is not so big as before.
Well, when "checkpoint seek in logs" will be implemented difference
will be the same - lost consistency.
> > Since there is a fundamental recovery
Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also, could the "-F" option be disabled now that WAL is enabled? Or is
> there still some reason to encourage/allow folks to use it?
I was the one who put it back in after Vadim turned it off ;-) ... and
I'll object to any attempt to remove the option
> Since there is a fundamental recovery problem if the WAL file
> disappears, then perhaps we should have a workaround which can ignore
> the requirement for that file on startup? Or maybe we do already?
> Vadim??
>
> Also, could the "-F" option be disabled now that WAL is enabled? Or is
> there
> Guilty as charged I am afraind... :( Here, I though with WAL and
> all (bad pun :), I would not need fsync anymore and decided to be
> reckless. Guess I ought to reconsider that decision Though wasn't WAL
> supposed to remove the need for fsync, or was it just to improve recovery
> a
