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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: Hannes Dorbath <light@theendofthetunnel.de>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 8.3 synchronous_commit
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:32:25 +0100
Message-ID: <82d4rumfae.fsf@mid.bfk.de> (raw)
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* Hannes Dorbath:

> I might completely misunderstand this feature. Shouldn't
> "synchronous_commit = off" improve performance?

Indeed.

We've seen something similar in one test, but couldn't reproduce it in
a clean environment so far.

> Maybe it's just my test box.. single SATA-II drive, XFS on top of LVM.

Ours was ext3, no LVM or RAID.

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