"Peter T. Brown" <peter@memeticsystems.com> writes:
> Is there any BIG risk in turning fsync off?
No, I wouldn't say so if you consider your data noncritical. fsync is
for stuff like orders and bank accounts, where losing even one
committed transaction is not acceptable.
> And isn't there some way to use fsync but just use it less frequently,
That's pretty much what you get with fsync off: the Unix system will
still flush data to disk every 30 sec or so (see syncer daemon's man
page).
regards, tom lane
