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From A J
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Responses Re: synchronous_commit and wal_writer_delay
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Does a synchronous_commit force WAL to be committed to disk or does it just WAIT for WAL to be committed according to WAL's set frequency to write ?
i.e. if I set wal_writer_delay=200ms and set synchronous_commit=on, will each commit wait for upto 200ms before committing ?

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