shared_buffers is big enough to hold the entire database, and there is plenty 
of extra space. (verified with PG_buffercache) 
So i don't think that is the reason. 


Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> schrieb:

>Jeff Janes <jeff.ja...@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 7/12/11, lars <lhofha...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> The fact that a select (maybe a big analytical query we'll run) touching
>>> many rows will update the WAL and wait
>>> (apparently) for that IO to complete is making a fully cached database
>>> far less useful.
>>> I just artificially created this scenario.
>
>> I can't think of any reason that that WAL would have to be flushed
>> synchronously.
>
>Maybe he's running low on shared_buffers?  We would have to flush WAL
>before writing a dirty buffer out, so maybe excessive pressure on
>available buffers is part of the issue here.
>
>                       regards, tom lane
>
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