# Everyone gets faster writes: We turned off FPW's in Neon

DevFeed: [Everyone gets faster writes: We turned off FPW's in Neon](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/everyone-gets-faster-writes-we-turned-off-fpw-s-in-neon-5837.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/turning-off-fpw-for-faster-writes>)

Author: David Wein

Published: 2026-05-07T10:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [compute](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compute.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [databricks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databricks.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [logs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/logs.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [safety](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/safety.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

Neon describes disabling PostgreSQL full-page writes because its storage engine makes that durability mechanism redundant, reporting faster write-heavy workloads and less WAL traffic.

## Source excerpt

We've managed to give customers up to 5x performance increase on write-heavy workloads by disabling full-page writes, a Postgres durability safety feature that is made redundant by Neon's own storage engine.