Re: PostgreSQL is extremely slow on Windows - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: PostgreSQL is extremely slow on Windows
Date
Msg-id 87ekf5qljy.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: PostgreSQL is extremely slow on Windows  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
List pgsql-performance
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

> Right now with fsync off you can get transactions partially commited in your
> database, which is a serious problem (think moving money from one account to
> another).

It's worse than that. You can get a totally corrupted database. Things like
duplicated records (the before and after image of an update). Or indexes that
are out of sync with the table. This can cause strange inconsistent results
depending on the plan queries use, or outright database crashes.

--
greg

pgsql-performance by date:

Previous
From: Bruce Momjian
Date:
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL is extremely slow on Windows
Next
From: "SpaceBallOne"
Date:
Subject: gah! sudden slowdown??