Re: Asynchronous commit | Transaction loss at server crash

From: Balkrishna Sharma <b_ki(at)hotmail(dot)com>
To: <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Asynchronous commit | Transaction loss at server crash
Date: 2010-05-20 19:02:07
Message-ID: BAY149-w7E2586A2E044680536BD8F0E30@phx.gbl
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Good suggestion. Thanks.What's your take on SSD ? I read somewhere that moving the WAL to SSD helps as well.

> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:36:31 -0600
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Asynchronous commit | Transaction loss at server crash
> From: scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com
> To: b_ki(at)hotmail(dot)com
> CC: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Balkrishna Sharma <b_ki(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > I need to support several hundreds of concurrent update/inserts from an
> > online form with pretty low latency (maybe couple of milliseconds at max).
> > Think of a save to database at every 'tab-out' in an online form.
>
> You can get nearly the same performance by using a RAID controller
> with battery backed cache without the same danger of losing
> transactions.
>
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