On 7/29/11, lars hofhansl <lhofhansl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks Pavan! > > > I think the most important points are still that: > 1. The WAL write should be happening asynchronously (if that is possible) I think it is agreed that this is a "todo"; but since you reported that turning off synchronous commit did not improve performance, it is not directly relevant for you. > 2. There should be an option do not perform these compactions if the page is > only touched by reads. If the page is only touched by reads, there would be nothing to compact. Cheers, Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance