Re: Rather large LA - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Rather large LA
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Msg-id 1894838.pasMZSmQAq@alap2
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In response to Re: Rather large LA  (Richard Shaw <richard@aggress.net>)
Responses Re: Rather large LA  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-performance
On Monday, September 05, 2011 14:57:43 Richard Shaw wrote:
> Autovacuum has been disabled and set to run manually via cron during a quiet
> period and fsync has recently been turned off to gauge any real world
> performance increase, there is battery backup on the raid card providing
> some level of resilience.
That doesn't help you against a failure due to fsync() off as the BBU can only
protect data that actually has been written to disk. Without fsync=on no
guarantee about that exists.

Andres

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