On Apr 18, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Stefan Keller <sfkeller@gmail.com> wrote:
> I browsed the faq and looked at PostgreSQL performance books but I
> could not find the obvious:
> How to configure a read-only database server?
>
> I have a single-disk virtual Linux system and a read-only dataset
> which is exposed to internet and completely replaced from time to
> time.
>
> This is what I found so far:
>
> * Disabling autovacuum daemon.
> * Setting postgresql.conf parameters:
> fsync=off
> synchronous_commit=off
> full_page_writes=off
All of those speed up writes. I don't know that they will make any difference at all on a read-only workload.
> * What about wal_level and archive_mode?
Same with these.
>
...Robert