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RE: Re[4]: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC

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"Mikheev, Vadim"
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> We've speculated about using Posix semaphores instead, on platforms

For spinlocks we should use pthread mutex-es.

> where those are available.  I think Bruce was concerned about the

And nutex-es are more portable than semaphores.

Vadim