Re: PG slowdown

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: adey <adey11(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Abu Mushayeed <amushayeed(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PG slowdown
Date: 2006-07-13 03:50:38
Message-ID: 44B5C30E.3020604@commandprompt.com
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adey wrote:
> If you turn WAL logging off (via fsynch parameter in .conf), it is my
> understanding that you will no longer log database updates, and will
> therefore not be able to recover any uncommitted transactions in the
> event of failure, (which seems contradictory to database practice).
>

You can not turn of WAL logging. You can only delay how the data is
written to disk.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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