Tom Lane wrote: > Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Josh Berkus <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> a) Eliminate WAL logging entirely If we elimiate WAL logging, that means a reinstall is required for even a postmaster crash, which is a new non-durable behavior. Also, we just added wal_level = minimal, which might end up being a poor name choice of we want wal_level = off in PG 9.1. Perhaps we should have used wal_level = crash_safe in 9.0. I have added the following TODO: Consider a non-crash-safe wal_level that eliminates WAL activity * http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2010-06/msg00300.php -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + None of us is going to be here forever. + -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance