* Christopher Browne (cbbrowne@libertyrms.info) wrote:
> On one of our test servers, I set "fsync=false", and a test load's
> load time dropped from about 90 minutes to 3 minutes. (It was REALLY
> update heavy, with huge numbers of tiny transactions.)
>
> Which is, yes, quite spectacularly faster. But also quite
> spectacularly unsafe.
>
> I'm willing to live with the risk on a test box whose purpose is
> _testing_; it's certainly not a good thing to do in production.
Would it be possible to have the effectively done for a specific
transaction? If this was done as a single large transaction could there
be an option to say "don't fsync this until it's all done and then do it
all" or something? Just looking for a way to get the 'best of both
worlds'...
Stephen