On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 18:11 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: > > On 12/7/10 2:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Another point here is that it's not clear why we're selecting a > >> known-to-be-insecure default on OS X (where in fact all methods except > >> fsync_writethrough fail to push data to disk). We've been around on > >> that before, of course, and maybe now is not the time to change it. > > > Because nobody sane uses OSX on the server? > > Some of us would make the same remark about Windows. But we go out of > our way to provide a safe default on that platform anyhow.
Not to mention the assertion that people don't use OSX on a server is patently false. They don't use it on big servers, but it is very popular for the SMB (big time capital S). JD -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
