Re: Disabling bgwriter on my notebook - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paesold
Subject Re: Disabling bgwriter on my notebook
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Msg-id 008901c49fba$0902fa20$ad01a8c0@zaphod
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In response to Re: Disabling bgwriter on my notebook  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Disabling bgwriter on my notebook  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

> What about the original request to turn off the bgwriter?  Would setting
> the delay to a very high value do that?

Setting the delay to the same value as checkpoint_timeout would effectivly
disable bgwriter between checkpoints. This is what I wanted.
The problem is that this is currently not possible, since bgwriter_delay has
an upper limit of 5 seconds. Tom said this could be fixed.

Perhaps add as open item?

Best Regards,
Michael Paesold



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