On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 06:01:58AM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > Are you sure? Metadate changes are probably a lot more common on the WAL > partition. In any case, I don't see why there should be a difference. > The real issue is: is related filesystem metadata sync'd as part of a > file being fsync'd? I've been told on this list that PostgreSQL actually takes care to fill a new WAL file with zeroes etc. when initializing it; dig a few months back and I'm sure it's there. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/