On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Dusek, Bob <rd185032@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I haven't been involved in any benchmarking of PG8 with fsync=off, but we certainly did it with PG 7.4. fsync=0ff, for our purposes, was MUCH faster. And many changes have been made since then to make fsyncing much faster. You may be grinding the valves on a 2009 Ferrari because pappy used to have to do it on his 1958 pickup truck here. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance