Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> On 12/7/10 2:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Another point here is that it's not clear why we're selecting a
>> known-to-be-insecure default on OS X (where in fact all methods except
>> fsync_writethrough fail to push data to disk). We've been around on
>> that before, of course, and maybe now is not the time to change it.
> Because nobody sane uses OSX on the server?
Some of us would make the same remark about Windows. But we go out of
our way to provide a safe default on that platform anyhow.
regards, tom lane