I don't remember the exact error message, but basically, if I set it to anything else but fsync, when I start PostgreSQL, it tells me that the new method is not available on my platform.
Sébastien On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Ivan Voras <ivo...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 14/09/2012 22:19, Sébastien Lorion wrote: > > I am not able to set wal_sync_method to anything but fsync on FreeBSD 9.0 > > for a DB created on ZFS (I have not tested on UFS). Is that expected ? > Has > > it anything to do with running on EC2 ? > > Can you explain what prevents you for setting the wal_sync_method? > >