alt Hacker NewsIn practice, there must be a delay (from batching) if you fsync every transaction before acknowledging commit. The database would be unusably slow otherwise.
In practice, there must be a delay (from batching) if you fsync every transaction before acknowledging commit. The database would be unusably slow otherwise.
Right, I think the lazy thing implies that it would happen post "commit" being returned to the client, but it doesn't need to be. The commit just needs to be wait for "an" fsync call, not its own.