hi,
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:37 AM, YAMAMOTO Takashi
> <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp> wrote:
>>> Yes, I would expect that. What kind of increase are you seeing? Is
>>> it causing a problem for you, or are you just making an observation?
>>
>> i was curious because my application uses async commits mainly to
>> avoid frequent fsync. i have no numbers right now.
>
> Oh, that's interesting. Why do you want to avoid frequent fsyncs?
simply because it was expensive on my environment.
> I
> thought the point of synchronous_commit=off was to move the fsyncs to
> the background, but not necessarily to decrease the frequency.
it makes sense.
but it's normal for users to abuse features. :)
YAMAMOTO Takashi
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