On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Dusek, Bob <rd185032(at)ncr(dot)com> wrote:
> I haven't been involved in any benchmarking of PG8 with fsync=off, but we certainly did it with PG 7.4. fsync=0ff, for our purposes, was MUCH faster.
And many changes have been made since then to make fsyncing much
faster. You may be grinding the valves on a 2009 Ferrari because
pappy used to have to do it on his 1958 pickup truck here.