* Hannes Dorbath: > I might completely misunderstand this feature. Shouldn't > "synchronous_commit = off" improve performance? Indeed. We've seen something similar in one test, but couldn't reproduce it in a clean environment so far. > Maybe it's just my test box.. single SATA-II drive, XFS on top of LVM. Ours was ext3, no LVM or RAID. -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq