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Re: Disable WAL completely



On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:48:55PM +0000, Matthew wrote:
> If there's not much write traffic, the WAL won't be used much anyway. 

You still have checkpoints.

> If you really don't care much about the integrity, then the best option is 
> probably to put the WAL on ramfs.

Um, that will cause the WAL to go away in the event of device crash.  Surely
that's a bad thing?

A




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