On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:56 PM, David Rees <drees76(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> max_fsm_pages = 16000000
>> max_fsm_relations = 625000
>> synchronous_commit = off
>
> You are playing with fire here. You should never turn this off unless
> you do not care if your data becomes irrecoverably corrupted.
That is not correct. Turning off synchronous_commit is sensible if
you don't mind losing the last few transactions on a crash. What will
corrupt your database is if you turn off fsync.
...Robert