On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@xxxxxx> wrote: > Marti Raudsepp <marti 'at' juffo.org> writes: > >> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 13:32, A B <gentosaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I was just thinking about the case where I will have almost 100% >>> selects, but still needs something better than a plain key-value >>> storage so I can do some sql queries. >>> The server will just boot, load data, run, Âhopefully not crash but if >>> it would, just start over with load and run. >> >> If you want fast read queries then changing >> fsync/full_page_writes/synchronous_commit won't help you. > > That illustrates how knowing the reasoning of this particular > requests makes new suggestions worthwhile, while previous ones > are now seen as useless. I disagree that they are useless - the stated mechanism was "start, load data, and run". Changing the params above won't likely change much in the 'run' stage but would they help in the 'load' stage? -- Jon -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance