Re: [Bizgres-general] WAL bypass for INSERT, UPDATE and

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:44:24AM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >This would apply to only a single relation, so would be just as
> >efficient a write to the database as to WAL. The proposed route is to
> >sync to the database, but not to WAL, thus halving the required I/O.
> >
> >Yes, its designed for large data loads.
> 
> 
> A question - would setting fsync=off while restoring a multi-gig dump 
> (during an upgrade) improve performance?

Yes.
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