Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> At any rate, I'm somewhat less convinced that the split was a good
> idea than I was when we did it, mostly because we haven't really gone
> anywhere with it subsequently.
BTW, while we are on the subject: hasn't this split completely broken
the statistics about backend-initiated writes? I don't see anything
in ForwardFsyncRequest that distinguishes whether it's being called in
the bgwriter or a regular backend.
regards, tom lane