Re: New to the list; would this be an okay question?

Christopher Browne wrote:
> After a long battle with technology, dev@archonet.com (Richard Huxton), an earthling, wrote:
>
>>5. You might want to batch together queries into transactions of a few
>>hundred or even few thousand updates.
>
>
> When this particular application got discussed on local LUG mailing
> list, this emerged as being one of the factors most likely to be a Big
> Deal.

Yep, except... Madison said a laptop was involved, so I'm guessing it's
an IDE drive lying about sync-ing. If fsync is effectively off that
shouldn't have such a huge effect should it?

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd