alt Hacker NewsJust turning off fsync is basically just as fast as a ramdisk and you can't use up all your memory with one big test.
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leontrolski • today at 6:23 PM
Agreed, benchmarking, I only see a slight speedup on MacOS - https://github.com/leontrolski/postgresql-testing#:~:text=ra...
Turning off synchronous_commit gets you most of the way without ever worrying about data corruption if something crashes mid way through.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/wal-async-commit.htm...