Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Which also means that everyone pays the performance penalty whether
>> they get any benefit or not. The point of the external solution
>> is to do the work only in installations that get some benefit.
>> We've been over this ground before...
> If there is a performance penalty, you are right, but if the zeroing is
> done as part of the archiving, it seems near zero cost enough to do it
> all the time, no?
It's the same cost no matter which process does it.
regards, tom lane
