We currently have an JBoss web application that persists a byte array it recieves (Using the EJB persistence API), and then tries to read it from the Database again from further parsing. The application works really well with the default Hypersonic datasource, but it will not work correctly when using postgres as the datasource.
The current problem we seem to have is that the data is persisted ok (or at least it seems to be in there with pgadmin), but cannot be read back out of the database all the time (in fact for about 90% of the time), the current behaviour of the application suggests it is trying to read it back out of the database (using EntityManager.find()) before it has really been saved, and thus fails to find the data. Do i have to tweak some settings in the postgres.conf file ? i have tried turning off fsync (i do not want to do this, for reliability reasons) and it performed far better. Can anyone advise me on the changes i need to make to speed up the inserting of data, i know that turning autocommit off is supposed to increase performance.