Come to think of it, I guess a battery-backed cache will make fsync as fast
as no fsync, right? So, the q was kinda stoopid... :-/
/Palle
--On måndag, september 29, 2003 23.31.54 +0200 Palle Girgensohn
<girgen(at)pingpong(dot)net> wrote:
> Stupid question, perhaps, but would a battery-backed cache make it safe
> to set fsync=false in postgresql.conf?
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> /Palle
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> --On söndag, september 28, 2003 13.07.57 +0100 Matt Clark
> <matt(at)ymogen(dot)net> wrote:
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>> As others have mentioned, you really ought to get battery-backed cache if
>> you're doing any volume of writes. The ability to do safe write-back
>> caching makes an *insane* difference to write performance.
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