Re: 8.3 synchronous_commit

* Hannes Dorbath:

> I might completely misunderstand this feature. Shouldn't
> "synchronous_commit = off" improve performance?

Indeed.

We've seen something similar in one test, but couldn't reproduce it in
a clean environment so far.

> Maybe it's just my test box.. single SATA-II drive, XFS on top of LVM.

Ours was ext3, no LVM or RAID.

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