Re: Changing checkpoint_timeout to another name? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Changing checkpoint_timeout to another name?
Date
Msg-id 200705301902.l4UJ2ts24545@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Changing checkpoint_timeout to another name?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Changing checkpoint_timeout to another name?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am currently writing some curriculum on managing IO with PostgreSQL 
> > and I keep running into the parameter checkpolint_timeout.
> *cough* checkpoint_timeout
> 
>   This seems to
> > be incorrect as it is not really a timeout as much as an interval...

It is a timeout because of WAL fills up before the timeout you get a
checkpoint and the timer is reset.  How is it an interval?

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