> I found a comment from 1999 where someone asked a similiar Q and Mimijian
> responded that that was not possible in pg. Is that still true? Can it be
> easily changed in the code?
It is possible to turn off transactions. The problem is would the
system be any faster, and would a single INSERT failure due to a
constraint check make the system unusable. You can turn off fsync in
postgresql.conf and maybe there is a way to prevent pre-change image
logging to WAL, but other than that, I can't think of any more speedups
that keep the system usable.
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