Re: Synchronous Log Shipping Replication - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 12:24 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > This gives us the Group Commit feature also, even if we are not using
> > replication. So we can drop the commit_delay stuff.
> 
> Huh? How does that give us group commit?

Multiple backends waiting while we perform a write. Commits then happen
as a group (to WAL at least), hence Group Commit.

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