Tom, > One of the things that's really attractive about the proposed mode is > that it does *not* create a risk of data corruption
Oh, ok. That wasn't how I understood Simon's case. > I agree that we ought to look at some performance numbers before > accepting the patch, but I think Josh's argument that this opens us > up to major corruption problems is probably wrong. OK. I've seen no performance numbers yet though. It just seems to me that any performance patch proposal should start a discussion of what amount of performance we expect to gain. Unfortunately, this is *not* a patch I can test on TPCE or SpecJ, because both of those have ACID requirements which I don't think this would satisfy. I'd have to modify the benchmark, and I already have 4 performance patches queue which don't require that. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly