Re: Async Commit, v21 (now: v22) - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Async Commit, v21 (now: v22)
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Msg-id 20070724180800.GC3926@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Async Commit, v21 (now: v22)  (Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>)
Responses Re: Async Commit, v21 (now: v22)
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Florian Weimer wrote:

> I think fsync=off also endagers metadata, while synchronous_commit=off
> should be perfectly safe as far as the metadata is concerned.
> Wouldn't this be worth mentioning as well?

Is it true that a transaction is turned into sync commit as soon as it
writes on a system catalog?  Is it desirable to make it so?

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