I agree, the initial report on pgsql-hackers had a subject that blamed PostgreSQL too strongly and I think that carried through to articles and blogs and Twitte

I agree, the initial report on pgsql-hackers had a subject that blamed PostgreSQL too strongly and I think that carried through to articles and blogs and Twitter etc. You are right, this affects other things too. And indeed several projects took action to remove any notion of fsync retry, referencing the LWN article etc. POSIX is probably underspecified. AN Austin Group defect report would be interesting...