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</para>
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</listitem>
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+ <listitem>
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+ <para>
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+ Turn off <xref linkend="guc-synchronous-commit">; there might be no
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+ need to force <acronym>WAL</acronym> writes to disk on every
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+ commit. This setting does risk transaction loss (though not data
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+ corruption) in case of a crash of the <emphasis>database</>.
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+ </para>
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+ </listitem>
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Turn off <xref linkend="guc-full-page-writes">; there is no need
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<listitem>
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<para>
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- Turn off <xref linkend="guc-synchronous-commit">; there might be no
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- need to write the <acronym>WAL</acronym> to disk on every
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- commit. This setting does risk transaction loss (though not data
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- corruption) in case of a crash of the <emphasis>database</> alone.
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+ Create <link linkend="SQL-CREATETABLE-UNLOGGED">unlogged
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+ tables</link> to avoid <acronym>WAL</acronym> writes, though it
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+ makes the tables non-crash-safe.
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</para>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</sect1>