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From: Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet@gmail.com>
To: guoping.zhang@nec.com.au
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, "Guoping Zhang (E-mail)" <guopingz@nstc.nec.com.au>
Subject: Re: how unsafe (or worst scenarios) when setting fsync OFF for postgresql
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:26:18 +0200
Message-ID: <1d4e0c10604270226s53e261e9m943bf44766c880bf@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Guoping,

On 4/27/06, Guoping Zhang <guoping.zhang@nec.com.au> wrote:
> We have to looking at setting fsync OFF option for performance reason,

Did you try the other wal sync methods (fdatasync in particular)? I
saw a few posts lately explaining how changing sync method can affect
performances in specific cases.

--
Guillaume



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