Re: How to speedup CHECKPOINTs? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joseph S
Subject Re: How to speedup CHECKPOINTs?
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Msg-id 460AC7CF.20901@selectacast.net
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In response to How to speedup CHECKPOINTs?  ("Dmitry Koterov" <dmitry@koterov.ru>)
Responses Re: How to speedup CHECKPOINTs?  ("CAJ CAJ" <pguser@gmail.com>)
Re: How to speedup CHECKPOINTs?  ("Dmitry Koterov" <dmitry@koterov.ru>)
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Dmitry Koterov wrote:

> And the general question - why SELECT queries slowdown  during the
> CHECKPOINT? I thought that Postgres is a version-based database and read
> queries are never blocked...

Because the disk is busy.

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