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From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Dusek, Bob <rd185032@ncr.com>
Cc: Bob Dusek <redusek@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: performance config help
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:16:45 -0700
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Dusek, Bob <rd185032@ncr.com> wrote:
> I haven't been involved in any benchmarking of PG8 with fsync=off, but we certainly did it with PG 7.4.  fsync=0ff, for our purposes, was MUCH faster.

And many changes have been made since then to make fsyncing much
faster.  You may be grinding the valves on a 2009 Ferrari because
pappy used to have to do it on his 1958 pickup truck here.



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