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Hi Edson, 

On 2013/11/17 Edson Richter <edsonrichter@xxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> One question: would you please expand your answer and explain how would this adversely affect async replication?

Is this a question or a hint (or both) :-)? Of course almost all non-durable settings [1] will delay replication. 

I think I have to add, that pure speed of a read-mostly database is the main scenario I have in mind. 
Duration, High-availability and Scaling out are perhaps additional or separate scenarios.

So, to come back to my question: I think that Postgres could be even faster by magnitudes, if the assumption of writing to slow secondary storage (like disks) is removed (or replaced).

--Stefan

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/non-durability.html




2013/11/17 Edson Richter <edsonrichter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Em 17/11/2013 10:00, Michael Paquier escreveu:

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Stefan Keller <sfkeller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How can Postgres be used and configured as an In-Memory Database?

Does anybody know of thoughts or presentations about this "NoSQL feature" -
beyond e.g. "Perspectives on NoSQL" from Gavin Roy at PGCon 2010)?

Given, say 128 GB memory or more, and (read-mostly) data that fit's into
this, what are the hints to optimize Postgres (postgresql.conf etc.)?
In this case as you are trading system safety (system will not be
crash-safe) for performance... The following parameters would be
suited:
- Improve performance by reducing the amount of data flushed:
fsync = off
synchronous_commit=off
- Reduce the size of WALs:
full_page_writes = off
- Disable the background writer:
bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 0
Regards,
One question: would you please expand your answer and explain how would this adversely affect async replication?

Edson


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