Re: WAL and O_DIRECT

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On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:32:12AM -0400, Ravi Krishna wrote:
> Aha that pretty much explains it. Yes we are using streaming replication.
> 
> However our DB2 folks are raising a concern that PG WAL writes may not be crash
> safe, unless we are using write back technology in SAN or SSD , which we are
> using.

We write WAL to the kernel, then issue fsync.

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