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From: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: "fsync = off" in recovery
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 22:21:55 +0700
Message-ID: <YG3OEx8aSe2JU175@admin.sibptus.ru> (raw)

Dear Colleagues,

When a cluster is in recovery mode (a delayed replica, PITR etc), does
the setting of "fsync = off" speed up the application of WALs?

I've done some experimenting and got dubious results, so what does the 
theory say?

-- 
Victor Sudakov VAS4-RIPE
http://vas.tomsk.ru/
2:5005/49@fidonet

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