Re: Commit(?) overhead

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
Cc: Duncan Kinnear <duncan(dot)kinnear(at)mccarthy(dot)co(dot)nz>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-performa(dot)" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Commit(?) overhead
Date: 2019-04-09 22:23:36
Message-ID: 20190409222336.45ekgwcj4ot3zxkq@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2019-04-09 17:12:27 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> You could test that's the issue by comparing with fsync=off (please read what
> that means and don't run your production cluster like that).
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-wal.html#GUC-FSYNC

I suggest testing it with synchronous_commit=off instead. That's about
as fast for this type of workload, doesn't have cluster corruption
issues, the window of a transaction not persisting in case of a crash is
very small, and it can just set by any user in individual sessions.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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