Krzysztof Kardas <krzychk2(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> synchronous_commit = off
> This caused a monumental performance jump. From a machine that is
> utilized on 100%, machine is now sleeping and doing nothing. I
> have executed some sqls on huge tables like history and all has
> executed like lightning. Comparing to MySQL, PostgreSQL in this
> configuration is about 30 - 40% faster in serving data.
> Housekeeper is about 2 to 3 times faster!!!!
If you have a good RAID controller with battery backup for the
cache, and it's configured to write-back, this setting shouldn't
make very much difference. Next time you're looking at hardware for
a database server, I strongly recommend you get such a RAID
controller and make sure it is configured to write-back.
Anyway, I'm glad to hear that things are working well for you now!
-Kevin