Re: Postgres becoming slow, only full vacuum fixes it

From: Julien Cigar <jcigar(at)ulb(dot)ac(dot)be>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres becoming slow, only full vacuum fixes it
Date: 2012-09-24 12:53:59
Message-ID: 506057E7.5090008@ulb.ac.be
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On 09/24/2012 14:34, Andres Freund wrote:
> On Monday, September 24, 2012 02:21:09 PM Julien Cigar wrote:
>> 5) synchronous_commit = off should only be used if you have a
>> battery-backed write cache.
> Huh? Are you possibly confusing this with full_page_writes?

indeed...! sorry for that
(note that you still have a (very) small chance of loosing data with
synchronous_commit = off if your server crashes between two "commit chunks")

> Greetings,
>
> Andres

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