Florian Weimer wrote:
> The documentation doesn't really tell how to disable synchronous
> commits for a single commit.  I believe the correct command is
> 
>   SET LOCAL synchronous_commit TO OFF;
> 
> just before the COMMIT statement.

Nice.  I made the following documentation change, attached.

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Index: doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v
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diff -c -c -r1.152 config.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/config.sgml	1 Nov 2007 17:06:30 -0000	1.152
--- doc/src/sgml/config.sgml	5 Nov 2007 17:34:36 -0000
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*** 1318,1324 ****
          In many situations, turning off <xref linkend="guc-synchronous-commit">
          for noncritical transactions can provide much of the potential
          performance benefit of turning off <varname>fsync</varname>, without
!         the attendant risks of data corruption.
         </para>
  
         <para>
--- 1318,1326 ----
          In many situations, turning off <xref linkend="guc-synchronous-commit">
          for noncritical transactions can provide much of the potential
          performance benefit of turning off <varname>fsync</varname>, without
!         the attendant risks of data corruption.  It can even be turned
!         off in a single multi-statement transaction using <command>SET
!         LOCAL synchronous_commit TO OFF;</>.
         </para>
  
         <para>
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