--- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah-hah. The win32 hackers should confirm this, but > my recollection is > that sync/fsync are no-ops under Cygwin (one of the > several reasons > we would never recommend that port for production > use). So this would > fit the assumption that the 7.4 code was simply not > syncing. >
Sounds reasonable. However, I don't see the same performance hit while doing bulk database operations (ie: inserts, deletes, updates). Is that expected behavior? Do vacuum operations fsync()/_commit() more often? Regards, Shelby Cain __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings