Jonah, > Under Oracle, NOWAIT is an asynchronous commit... anyone that uses it > should understand that it's still not on-disk and that they can lose > it in the event of a failure. That's what Oracle's docs even say. > It's just a risk vs. reward trade off.
You're missing my point, which is that nobody has demonstrated that there is any real performance gain from this. I see no reason to implement it if there is no performance gain. -- --Josh Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings