Radu-Adrian Popescu <radu.popescu@aldratech.com> writes:
> I belive you should set
> fsync=false
> in case you mainly select and do inserts rather rare.
No, that's a really horrid reason to turn off fsync. A read-only
transaction never syncs and thus has no fsync penalty. If update
performance isn't a serious problem for you, you may as well keep
fsync on and not have to worry about data loss in the case of a
system crash.
regards, tom lane
