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From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: PostgreSQL as a local in-memory cache
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL as a local in-memory cache  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

> What synchronous_commit = false does is to delay writing
> the wal buffers to disk and fsyncing them, not just fsync

Ah, that answers the question Josh Berkus asked here:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2010-06/msg00285.php

(which is something I was wondering about, too.)

-Kevin

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