Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > In my view, the elephant in the room here is that it's dramatically > inefficient for every backend to send an fsync request on every block > write.
Yeah. This was better before the decision was taken to separate bgwriter from checkpointer; before that, only local communication was involved for the bulk of write operations (or at least so we hope). I remain less than convinced that that split was really a great idea. 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