On 8/05/2010 1:56 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
I never meant to suggest any statement in that section is factually
wrong; it's just all too rosy, leading people to believe it's no big
deal to turn it off.
Yeah, that section is overdue for an update. I'll write some new text
and post it to pgsql-docs.
It's probably worth mentioning that people who want to turn off fsync to
gain a performance boost should instead look at a RAID controller with a
BBU so they can safely enable write-back caching, getting most of the
benefits of fsync=off safely.
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Craig Ringer
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