sorry about cc ... this is the site: http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/annotated_conf_e.html but I gues is not right ... hmm
Adrian Din
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:52:04 +0000, Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote:
I'll repeat myself:
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Din Adrian wrote:On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:56:50 +0000, Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote:
Please CC the mailing list as well as replying to me, so that others can help too.hmm this is the doc about ...
b) in docs say that after 7.2 seting this to false does'n turn off the wall ...!? wich option does?
The docs don't say that, as far as I can see. It doesn't make sense to turn off the WAL.
' NOTE: Since 7.2, turning fsync off does NOT stop WAL. It does stop checkpointing, however. This is a change in the notes that follow Turn WAL off (fsync=false) only for a read-only database or one where the database can be regenerated from external software. While RAID plus UPSes can do a lot to protect your data, turning off fsync means that you will be restoring from backup in the event of hardware or power failure.'
I don't know what this is, and you don't give a URL, but it DOES NOT appear to be in the manuals.
You should probably read the sections of the manuals regarding "run-time configuration" and "write ahead logs". The manuals are quite extensive, are available online at http://www.postgresql.org/ and also in most distributions.
This is probably a good place to start. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/runtime-config.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-WAL
If you turn it off you should have more speed ... !!!???
Basically, as I said in my last email - fsync=true makes sure transaction details are safely stored on disk. If you turn this off, the database doesn't have to wait for the data to physically be written to the disk. But, if power fails then data might be in OS or disk cache and so lost when you restart the machine.
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