Re: Disabling WAL for bulk data loads

William Yu <wyu@talisys.com> writes:
> If you have enough memory, you can always make a ramdisk to store the
> WAL temporarily while you bulk load data. I also temporarily alter the
> config to set checkpoint_segments = 1 to use as few pg_xlog files as
> possible.

Really?  That seems pretty counterproductive to me.  I've never seen
a case where reducing checkpoint_segments increased performance.
Checkpoints are expensive, and usually you want 'em far apart.

            regards, tom lane

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