Hello >That is bad advice. >If there are no writes, fsync won't hurt anyway. >Never disable fsync for anything but test systems. Yep. Its a bad way to speed up writes. Not relevant to this context and bad anyway regards Sameer -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.nabble.com/Optimizing-a-read-only-database-tp5849746p5850108.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general