Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> The central question is whether checkpoint_segments should trigger
> restartpoints or not. When PITR and restartpoints were introduced, the
> answer was "no", on the grounds that when you're doing recovery you're
> presumably replaying the logs much faster than they were generated, and
> you don't want to slow down the recovery by checkpointing too often.
> Now that we have bgwriter active during recovery, and streaming
> replication which retains the streamed WALs so that we now risk running
> out of disk space with long checkpoint_timeout, it's time to reconsider
> that.
> I think we have three options:
What about
(4) pay some attention to the actual elapsed time since the last
restart point?
All the others seem like kluges that are relying on hard-wired rules
that are hoped to achieve something like a time-based checkpoint.
regards, tom lane
