Re: [HACKERS] win32 performance - fsync question

Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> ISTM Windows' idea of fsync is quite different from Unix's and therefore
>> we should name the wal_sync_method that invokes it something different
>> than fsync.  "write_through" or some such?

> Ah, I remember now.  On Win32 our fsync is:
> 	#define fsync(a)    _commit(a)
> I am wondering if we should call the new mode open_commit or
> open_writethrough.  Our typical rule is to tie it to the API call, which
> should suggest open_commit.

fsync_writethrough, perhaps.  I don't see any "open" about it.

			regards, tom lane

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