> Perhaps you want MySQL ;-)
I plan to bench-mark it today. Pg performs fine for normal business use and
we're using it for our other needs, but this app is rather unusual...
>
> Seriously, transactions per se are not your problem, and you can't turn
> them off anyway, so there's no point in continuing to bark up that tree.
>
'Kay; it was just a thought.
<info about checkpoint tuning>
Am already doing this and have increased the checkpointing segs, wal files
and buffers. I no longer get any advice in the logs about increasing this...
>
> There are also the usual tuning questions about whether you've set the
> number of shared buffers to something reasonable, etc. etc.
>
Already done...