Asynchronous commit documentation gap

Started by Florian Weimerabout 18 years ago3 messages
#1Florian Weimer
fweimer@bfk.de

The documentation doesn't really tell how to disable synchronous
commits for a single commit. I believe the correct command is

SET LOCAL synchronous_commit TO OFF;

just before the COMMIT statement.

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#2Simon Riggs
simon@2ndquadrant.com
In reply to: Florian Weimer (#1)
Re: Asynchronous commit documentation gap

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 11:13 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:

The documentation doesn't really tell how to disable synchronous
commits for a single commit. I believe the correct command is

SET LOCAL synchronous_commit TO OFF;

just before the COMMIT statement.

Yes, in fact anywhere within the transaction will do.

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#3Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Florian Weimer (#1)
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Re: [HACKERS] Asynchronous commit documentation gap

Florian Weimer wrote:

The documentation doesn't really tell how to disable synchronous
commits for a single commit. I believe the correct command is

SET LOCAL synchronous_commit TO OFF;

just before the COMMIT statement.

Nice. I made the following documentation change, attached.

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Index: doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.152
diff -c -c -r1.152 config.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/config.sgml	1 Nov 2007 17:06:30 -0000	1.152
--- doc/src/sgml/config.sgml	5 Nov 2007 17:34:36 -0000
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*** 1318,1324 ****
          In many situations, turning off <xref linkend="guc-synchronous-commit">
          for noncritical transactions can provide much of the potential
          performance benefit of turning off <varname>fsync</varname>, without
!         the attendant risks of data corruption.
         </para>
  
         <para>
--- 1318,1326 ----
          In many situations, turning off <xref linkend="guc-synchronous-commit">
          for noncritical transactions can provide much of the potential
          performance benefit of turning off <varname>fsync</varname>, without
!         the attendant risks of data corruption.  It can even be turned
!         off in a single multi-statement transaction using <command>SET
!         LOCAL synchronous_commit TO OFF;</>.
         </para>
  
         <para>