On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Stephen Tyler <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The times are apparently in milliseconds. But that doesn't make any sense > for the 7200rpm SATA HDD, given it has an 8.3ms rotation time. And the > numbers for the SSD are basically identical to the HDD, apart from the bare > write timing. > > Do I conclude that the sync timings are all faked by the OS? Actually, it's usually the drives that lie about fsync, especially consumer grade (and some server grade) SATA / PATA drives are known for this. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general