Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Kevin Grittner wrote: > > Anyway, given that these are replication > > targets, and aren't the "database of origin" for any data of their > > own, I guess there's no reason not to try asynchronous commit. > > Yeah; since the transactions only ever write commit records to WAL, it > wouldn't matter a bit that they are lost on crash. And you should see > an improvement, because they wouldn't have to flush at all. Actually, a transaction that performed no writes doesn't get a commit WAL record written, so it shouldn't make any difference at all. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
