In article <199909201327.JAA18590@candle.pha.pa.us>,
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
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>> > I am told we are the same as Ingres, and slower than Oracle with no -F,
>> > and faster than Oracle with -F.
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>> What is "-F"?
>>
>
>-F is postgres option for no-fsync.
Does that matter on read-only selects?
Might some future version of postgresql have an option to turn
off transaction support to match mysql speed for the situations
where that is more important than the ability to roll back?
Les Mikesell les@mcs.com