On 5 November 2010 10:59, A B <gentosa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there. > > If you just wanted PostgreSQL to go as fast as possible WITHOUT any > care for your data (you accept 100% dataloss and datacorruption if any > error should occur), what settings should you use then? > > Turn off fsync and full_page_writes (i.e. running with scissors).
Also depends on what you mean by "as fast as possible". Fast at doing what? Bulk inserts, selecting from massive tables? -- Thom Brown Twitter: @darkixion IRC (freenode): dark_ixion Registered Linux user: #516935