Re: COMMIT NOWAIT Performance Option - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Simon Riggs wrote:

> The interesting point is you can have a huge data grinding app, yet with
> other tables alongside that hold more important data. In that scenario,
> 90% of the data would be COMMIT NOWAIT, whilst the small important data
> is safe.

Does this means that the regular COMMIT is slower because it has to
force more data to disk?  I imagine that this isn't the case, because
it's not the write itself that's slow; rather, it's the wait until the
fsync on WAL is reported complete.  However, did you measure this?

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