Re: synchronous_commit off

["Anibal David Acosta" <aa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

the application doesn't manage money or something really really critical, so I can live with the “in case of crash” that is not a normal behavior J

 

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

De: pgsql-performance-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-performance-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] En nombre de Greg Smith
Enviado el: lunes, 01 de agosto de 2011 03:53 p.m.
Para: pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: Re: synchronous_commit off

 

On 08/01/2011 09:29 AM, Anibal David Acosta wrote:

Can a transaction committed asynchronously report an error, duplicate key or something like that, causing a client with a OK transaction but server with a FAILED transaction.

 

No.  You are turning off the wait for the transaction to hit disk before returning to the client, but all the validation checks are done before that.  The sole risk with synchronous_commit off is that a client will get COMMIT, but the server will lose the transaction completely--when there's a crash before it's written to disk.

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