From 8d1c1d40ec25424d08539cdd358cfcc437adeb63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 02:22:41 +0000
Subject: Update fsync FAQ item.

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 doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html | 34 +++++++++++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
index d40aa45f36a..2f4a0e6a5a4 100644
--- a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
+++ b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   alink="#0000ff">
     <H1>Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL</H1>
 
-    <P>Last updated: Mon Jun 10 16:44:55 EDT 2002</P>
+    <P>Last updated: Mon Jun 10 22:22:31 EDT 2002</P>
 
     <P>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<A href=
     "mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</A>)<BR>
@@ -425,32 +425,20 @@
 
       <DT><B>Performance</B></DT>
 
-      <DD>PostgreSQL runs in two modes. Normal <I>fsync</I> mode
-      flushes every completed transaction to disk, guaranteeing that if
-      the OS crashes or loses power in the next few seconds, all your
-      data is safely stored on disk. In this mode, we are slower than
-      most commercial databases, partly because few of them do such
-      conservative flushing to disk in their default modes. In
-      <I>no-fsync</I> mode, we are usually faster than commercial
-      databases, though in this mode, an OS crash could cause data
-      corruption. We are working to provide an intermediate mode that
-      suffers less performance overhead than full fsync mode, and will
-      allow data integrity within 30 seconds of an OS crash.<BR>
+      <DD>PostgreSQL has performance similar to other commercial and
+      open source databases. it is faster for some things, slower for
+      others.
       <BR>
-       In comparison to MySQL or leaner database systems, we are slower
+      In comparison to MySQL or leaner database systems, we are slower
       on inserts/updates because we have transaction overhead. Of
       course, MySQL does not have any of the features mentioned in the
-      <I>Features</I> section above. We are built for flexibility and
-      features, though we continue to improve performance through
-      profiling and source code analysis. There is an interesting Web
-      page comparing PostgreSQL to MySQL at <A href=
-      "http://openacs.org/why-not-mysql.html">http://openacs.org/why-not-mysql.html</A><BR>
+      <I>Features</I> section above. We are built for reliability and
+      features, though we continue to improve performance in every
+      release. There is an interesting Web page comparing PostgreSQL to
+      MySQL at <A href= "http://openacs.org/why-not-mysql.html">
+
+      http://openacs.org/why-not-mysql.html</A><BR>
 
-      <BR>
-       We handle each user connection by creating a Unix process.
-      Backend processes share data buffers and locking information.
-      With multiple CPUs, multiple backends can easily run on different
-      CPUs.<BR>
       <BR>
       </DD>
 
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