On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:44:40PM +0200, Chris Mair wrote: > Yes, pg_xlog ist also used with fsync=off. you might gain quite some > performance if you can manage to put pg_xlog on its own disk (just > symlink the directory). Substantially increasing wal buffers might help too. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461