Tuning for PostGreSQL Database

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bosko Milekic [mailto:bmilekic at technokratis.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 8:03 AM
To: Dan Langille
Cc: freebsd-database at freebsd.org; freebsd-performance at freebsd.org; Jason
Stone
Subject: Re: Tuning for PostGreSQL Database



On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:37:44AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 21 Jul 2003 at 20:35, Jason Stone wrote:
> 
> > I feel like this is an extremely important point.  If softupdates
changes
> > the semantics of sync(2)/fsync(2), then it absolutely has to be off for
a
> > postgresql server because postgresql counts on fsync in order to make
its
> > durability guarantees.
> 
> If this means all FreeBSD-PostgreSQL users need to change their 
> setup, we need to do something ASAP.  I'd first recommend getting the 
> confirmation from the PostgreSQL team, then adjusting the PostgreSQL 
> documenation and the FreeBSD port.
> 
> Does anyone feel this is urgent enough that they'll do something 
> about it?
> -- 
> Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/

  You sound like you know exactly what's involved. :-)

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