* Christopher Browne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On one of our test servers, I set "fsync=false", and a test load's > load time dropped from about 90 minutes to 3 minutes. (It was REALLY > update heavy, with huge numbers of tiny transactions.) > > Which is, yes, quite spectacularly faster. But also quite > spectacularly unsafe. > > I'm willing to live with the risk on a test box whose purpose is > _testing_; it's certainly not a good thing to do in production.
Would it be possible to have the effectively done for a specific transaction? If this was done as a single large transaction could there be an option to say "don't fsync this until it's all done and then do it all" or something? Just looking for a way to get the 'best of both worlds'... Stephen
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