Comment by johncolanduoni
24 days ago
It’s like using a non-cryptographically secure RNG: if you don’t know enough to look for the fsync flag off yourself, it’s unlikely you know enough to evaluate the impact of durability on your application.
24 days ago
It’s like using a non-cryptographically secure RNG: if you don’t know enough to look for the fsync flag off yourself, it’s unlikely you know enough to evaluate the impact of durability on your application.
> if you don’t know enough to look for the fsync flag off yourself,
Yeah, it should use safe-defaults.
Then you can always go read the corners of the docs for the "go faster" mode.
Just like Postgres's infamous "non-durable settings" page... https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/non-durability.html