Re: v7.1b4 bad performance

From: M Carling <m(at)axispt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Ansley <Michael(dot)Ansley(at)intec-telecom-systems(dot)com>, "'Schmidt, Peter '" <peter(dot)schmidt(at)prismedia(dot)com>, "''Bruce Momjian' '" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "''pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org' '" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: v7.1b4 bad performance
Date: 2001-02-17 18:00:36
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0102170959150.19836-100000@mail.axispt.com
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On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> How's that again? 7.1 with -F is just as much at the mercy of a system
> crash as previous releases with -F, because it's not fsync'ing the WAL
> log. In either case, -F is only for those who trust their hardware + OS
> + UPS, or perhaps are running development systems and care more for
> speed than data recoverability.

What if the WAL log is on a partition that is mounted synchronously?

M Carling

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