Asynchronous commit documentation gap

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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>
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Subject: Asynchronous commit documentation gap
Date: 2007-11-02 10:13:11
Message-ID: 82ejf9q7k8.fsf@mid.bfk.de
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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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From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Asynchronous commit documentation gap
Date: 2007-11-04 09:05:27
Message-ID: 1194167127.4258.27.camel@ebony.site
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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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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Asynchronous commit documentation gap
Date: 2007-11-05 17:35:50
Message-ID: 200711051735.lA5HZoo12517@momjian.us
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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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