Tom Lane-2 wrote: > > > What sort of disk hardware have you got? It sounds overstressed. > > It might help to increase wal_buffers. > > The disk is a SATA drive and it will be replaced in future projects with a better drive. However, I still don't understand why there is any halt in the client when synchronous_commit is off. Thanks, Tomer -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/synchronous_commit%3Doff-doesn%27t-always-return-immediately-tp24621119p24630130.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