Re: PostgreSQL as a local in-memory cache

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

> What synchronous_commit = false does is to delay writing
> the wal buffers to disk and fsyncing them, not just fsync

Ah, that answers the question Josh Berkus asked here:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2010-06/msg00285.php

(which is something I was wondering about, too.)

-Kevin