Marek Florianczyk <franki@tpi.pl> writes:
> W li�cie z czw, 06-11-2003, godz. 15:37, Jeff pisze:
>> I would *STRONGLY* advise not running with fsync=false in production as
>> PG _CANNOT_ guaruntee data consistancy in the event of a hardware
>> failure. It would sure suck to have a power failure screw up your nice
>> db for the users!
> Sure I know, but with WAL it will make fsync every some? seconds, right?
No. fsync = false turns off fsync of WAL. It's okay for development
but not when you actually care about integrity of your data.
regards, tom lane