On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:34:47PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.
In my experience, though, they do hurt _quite substantially_ during
the checkpoint. If you need fast all the time, cranking that
interval too high will definitely hurt you.
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