Re: advice on raid controller - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Palle Girgensohn
Subject Re: advice on raid controller
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In response to Re: advice on raid controller  (Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net>)
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Come to think of it, I guess a battery-backed cache will make fsync as fast
as no fsync, right? So, the q was kinda stoopid... :-/

/Palle

--On måndag, september 29, 2003 23.31.54 +0200 Palle Girgensohn
<girgen@pingpong.net> wrote:

> Stupid question, perhaps, but would a battery-backed cache make it safe
> to set fsync=false in postgresql.conf?
>
> /Palle
>
> --On söndag, september 28, 2003 13.07.57 +0100 Matt Clark
> <matt@ymogen.net> wrote:
>
>> As others have mentioned, you really ought to get battery-backed cache if
>> you're doing any volume of writes.  The ability to do safe write-back
>> caching makes an *insane* difference to write performance.
>
>
>
>





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