Le 2013-01-07 à 16:49, james a écrit : > Is there a way to force a WAL flush so that async commits (from other connections) are flushed, short of actually updating a sacrificial row? > > Would be nice to do it without generating anything extra, even if it is something that causes IO in the checkpoint. > > Am I right to think that an empty transaction won't do it, and nor will a transaction that is just a NOTIFY? Does pg_start_backup() trigger a full WAL flush? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-LOWLEVEL-BASE-BACKUP http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-ADMIN-BACKUP-TABLE Bye, François -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance