Increase PostgreSQL write speed at the cost of likely data loss?

Question

I love that PostgreSQL is crash resistant, as I don\'t want to spend time fixing a database. However, I\'m sure there must be some things I can disable/modify so that i

Answer 1

You should also increase checkpoint_segments (e.g. to 32 or even higher) and most probably wal_buffers as well

Edit:
if this is a bulk load, you should use COPY to insert the rows. It is much faster than plain INSERTs.

If you need to use INSERT, did you consider using batching (for JDBC) or multi-row inserts?