Re: Asynchronous commit | Transaction loss at server crash

What's your take on SSD ? I read somewhere that moving the WAL to SSD helps as well.

> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:36:31 -0600
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Asynchronous commit | Transaction loss at server crash
> From: scott.marlowe@gmail.com
> To: b_ki@hotmail.com
> CC: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Balkrishna Sharma <b_ki@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I need to support several hundreds of concurrent update/inserts from an
> > online form with pretty low latency (maybe couple of milliseconds at max).
> > Think of a save to database at every 'tab-out' in an online form.
>
> You can get nearly the same performance by using a RAID controller
> with battery backed cache without the same danger of losing
> transactions.
>
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