On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 23:26 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Why would multiple bgwriter processes worry you?
Because it complicates the tracking of files requiring fsync.
As Greg says, the last attempt to do that was a lot of code.
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