Re: hanging for 30sec when checkpointing - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: hanging for 30sec when checkpointing
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Msg-id 1529.1076088887@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: hanging for 30sec when checkpointing  (Shane Wright <me@shanewright.co.uk>)
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Shane Wright <me@shanewright.co.uk> writes:
> Although, is there any performance implication of not doing checkpoints
> very often?  (aside from, I assume, that each checkpoint will take
> longer and hence saturate available I/O for longer)

Mmm, right, I forgot to mention that one, which was a bit silly
considering that that was the focus of the discussion.  No, infrequent
checkpoints won't hurt performance between checkpoints.

            regards, tom lane

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