Jeff Davis wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 22:56 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote: > > Proposal: Implement a new option for COMMIT, for enhancing performance, > > providing a MySQL-like trade-off between performance and robustness for > > *only* those that want it. > > > > COMMIT NOWAIT > > > > This form of COMMIT will *not* perform XLogFlush(), but will rely on a > > special background process to perform regular WAL fsyncs (see later). > > > > I would think that the type of people who would want this feature would > want it to be a property of the connection, not per-statement. For one > thing, many applications use solitary SQL statements without surrounding > them in BEGIN/COMMIT.
You can set the GUC locally in your connection, of course. (You can even do it per role or per database by using ALTER/SET commands) -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
