Re: Read consistency when using synchronous_commit=off

Thanks Ravi for the clarification, we will go ahead with
"synchronous_commit=off".

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 10:47 AM Ravi Krishna <srkrishna(at)fastmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Sorry I misunderstood. The term "read consistency" is generally used
> either in the context of isolation level or in the context of slaves.
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> We don't have standby instance, as I have mentioned we are using just one
> instance of postgres serving local clients running on the same machine, do
> you know in this case what is the behavior ?
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> You are good. All transactions update buffer cache too, along with WAL
> buffer and hence other sessions can immediately see the changes.
> synchronous_commit=off will only reduce the fsync calls, which makes them
> less crash safe, but the database consistency is not compromised.
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