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Re: [HACKERS] win32 performance - fsync question


  • From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
  • Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org, Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>
  • Subject: Re: [HACKERS] win32 performance - fsync question
  • Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:54:00 -0500 (EST)
  • Message-id: <200502270054(dot)j1R0s0822782(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>

Patch applied.  Thanks.

I assume this is not approprate for 8.0.X.

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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Magnus prepared a trivial patch which added the O_SYNC flag 
> > for windows and mapped it to FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH in 
> > win32_open.c. 
> 
> Attached is this trivial patch. As Merlin says, it needs some more
> reliability testing. But the numbers are at least reasonable - it
> *seems* like it's doing the right thing (as long as you turn off write
> cache). And it's certainly a significant performance increase - it
> brings the speed almost up to the same as linux.
> 
> 
> //Magnus

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