On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Marti Raudsepp wrote:
>>
>> I couldn't find any past discussions about changing the default to "fast".
>> Are there any reasons why that cannot be done in a future release?
>>
> Kevin and I both suggested a "fast plus timeout then immediate" behavior is
> what many users seem to want. My comments were at
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg01145.php ; for an
> example of how fast shutdown can fail see
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-03/msg00062.php
Are there any settings in postgresql.conf that would make it unsafe to
use -m immediate?