On Monday, September 24, 2012 02:21:09 PM Julien Cigar wrote: > 5) synchronous_commit = off should only be used if you have a > battery-backed write cache. Huh? Are you possibly confusing this with full_page_writes? Greetings, Andres -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance