Soft updates make file creation/destruction faster. My BSDI system uses
it, and it is clearly faster for interactive use. I never tested
PostgreSQL.
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> >
> > No, softupdates to not affect recovery. Standard PostgreSQL flushes all
> > stuff to disk on transaction commit, and this it not affected by the
> > file system softupdate status.
> >
>
> AAahhh...
>
> yes I see (light goes on in head), this was sort of aluded to in on of
> the responses, but it didn't click.
>
> Therefore, there would be little practical benefit??
>
> I'll try a long series of insert/select/updates and compare.
>
>
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