From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: COMMIT NOWAIT Performance Option |
Date: | 2007-02-28 00:21:04 |
Message-ID: | 20070228002104.GA62448@nasby.net |
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 07:17:37PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Actually, I don't know that combining both settings is a wise move. The
> > delay should still provide crash protection, whereas with fsync=off
> > you've got absolutely no protection from anything. That's a huge
> > difference, and one that IMHO warrants a separate setting (and a big,
> > fat WARNING in the comment for that setting).
>
> Yes, it needs a warning, or perhaps we just tell people to set it to
> something high and that is all they can do.
Before doing that I'd want to see how the performance compares to
fsync=off. My guess is that fsync=off is a big gain during checkpoints.
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Jim Nasby jim(at)nasby(dot)net
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
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