Re: performance config help

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Dusek, Bob" <rd185032(at)ncr(dot)com>, Bob Dusek <redusek(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: performance config help
Date: 2010-01-11 20:25:57
Message-ID: 18927.1263241557@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Dusek, Bob <rd185032(at)ncr(dot)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.

Perhaps more to the point, synchronous_commit can get most of the same
speedup with much less risk to your database. You really owe it to
yourself to redo that benchmarking with a recent PG release.

regards, tom lane

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