Re: PostgreSQL as a local in-memory cache

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "Dimitri Fontaine" <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, "postgres performance list" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL as a local in-memory cache
Date: 2010-06-29 14:14:13
Message-ID: 4C29B9650200002500032CC2@gw.wicourts.gov
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> What synchronous_commit = false does is to delay writing
> the wal buffers to disk and fsyncing them, not just fsync

Ah, that answers the question Josh Berkus asked here:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2010-06/msg00285.php

(which is something I was wondering about, too.)

-Kevin

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