John A Meinel <john(at)arbash-meinel(dot)com> writes:
> So pg_xlog is really only needed for a dirty shutdown. So what about the
> idea of having pg_xlog on a ramdisk that is syncronized periodically to
> a real disk.
Well, if "periodically" means "at every transaction commit", that's
pretty much what we do now.
regards, tom lane