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Re:PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released by jonknee on Thursday May 18, 2017 @11:52AM (#14368275)
As soon as Postgres adds the "random data loss" feature they will have a full superset of Mongo.
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Re:PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released by colanderman on Thursday May 18, 2017 @12:10PM (#14368427)
You can always turn off fsyncs…
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Re:PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released by knodi on Thursday May 18, 2017 @12:36PM (#14368673)
Then you might as well use pg.
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Re:PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released by lima on Thursday May 18, 2017 @01:04PM (#14368938)
I think he meant that you can turn off fsyncs in pg in order to add random data loss :-)
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Re:PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released by X86BSD on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:49PM (#14370978)
You might be interested in this paper where the author touches on fsync.

https://people.freebsd.org/~seanc/postgresql/scale15x-2017-p...

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