On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 2:47 AM, Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Joshua D. Drake <j...@commandprompt.com> 
> wrote:
>> There are just as many people that are running with scissors that are now
>> running (or attempting to run) our elephant in production. Does it make
>> sense to remove fsync (and possibly full_page_writes) from such a visible
>> place as postgresql.conf?
>
> -1
>
> Anyone turning off fsync without even for a moment considering the
> consequences has only themselves to blame. I can't imagine why you'd
> want to remove full_page_writes or make it less visible either, since
> in principle it ought to be perfectly fine to turn it off in
> production once its verified as safe.

-1 for its removal as well. It is still useful for developers to
emulate CPU-bounded loads...
-- 
Michael


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