Important database news from the last few months
&quot;According to the “shoot the messenger” principle, PostgreSQL has been heavily criticized for fsyncgate. Indeed, PostgreSQL suffers from this problem more than other databases as it doesn&#x27;t offer direct IO.&quot;<p>Not a problem on any illumos based operating system, as fsync(2) and ZFS do what they&#x27;re supposed to do and do not lie about data being on stable storage when it isn&#x27;t. PostgreSQL is a good database, and if you want it to be bullet proof, run it on an illumos based operating system.