On 11/8/16 3:48 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > First question: Do we even want this? Generally, when a program > writes to a file, we rely on the operating system to decide when that > data should be written back to disk. We have to override that > distinction for things internal to PostgreSQL because we need certain > bits of data to reach the disk in a certain order, but it's unclear to > me how far outside the core database system we want to extend that.
I had voiced a similar concern previously: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/f8dff810-f5f4-77c3-933b-127df4ed9...@2ndquadrant.com At the time, there were no other comments, so we went ahead with it, which presumably gave encouragement to pursue the current patch. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
