Re: synchronous_commit off - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: synchronous_commit off
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In response to synchronous_commit off  ("Anibal David Acosta" <aa@devshock.com>)
Responses Re: synchronous_commit off  ("Anibal David Acosta" <aa@devshock.com>)
Re: synchronous_commit off  (Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>)
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On 08/01/2011 09:29 AM, Anibal David Acosta wrote:

Can a transaction committed asynchronously report an error, duplicate key or something like that, causing a client with a OK transaction but server with a FAILED transaction.


No.  You are turning off the wait for the transaction to hit disk before returning to the client, but all the validation checks are done before that.  The sole risk with synchronous_commit off is that a client will get COMMIT, but the server will lose the transaction completely--when there's a crash before it's written to disk.

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