Dan Armbrust wrote: > > All of my testing to date has been done with synchronous_commit=off > > I just tried setting full_page_writes=off - and like magic, the entire > hiccup went away. > Why is the full_page_write happening before the commit returns when synchronous_commit is set to off? Is there a way to fix this? Thanks, Tomer Amiaz -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Checkpoint-Tuning-Question-tp24396082p24607396.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