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rotation to fsync again. One idea is to write the WAL to different

offsets that might reduce the rotational delay.

* Allow buffered WAL writes and fsync

Instead of guaranteeing recovery of all committed transactions, this

would provide improved performance by delaying WAL writes and fsync

so an abrupt operating system restart might lose a few seconds of

committed transactions but still be consistent. We could perhaps

remove the 'fsync' parameter (which results in an an inconsistent

database) in favor of this capability.

Optimizer / Executor

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