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From: Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mnc.ch>
To: Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>
Cc: A B <gentosaker@gmail.com>
Cc: Szymon Guz <mabewlun@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Running PostgreSQL as fast as possible no matter the consequences
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:08:26 +0100
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Marti Raudsepp <marti 'at' juffo.org> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 13:32, A B <gentosaker@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was just thinking about the case where I will have almost 100%
>> selects, but still needs something better than a plain key-value
>> storage so I can do some sql queries.
>> The server will just boot, load data, run,  hopefully not crash but if
>> it would, just start over with load and run.
>
> If you want fast read queries then changing
> fsync/full_page_writes/synchronous_commit won't help you.

That illustrates how knowing the reasoning of this particular
requests makes new suggestions worthwhile, while previous ones
are now seen as useless.

-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau



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