Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Daniel Barlow wrote:
>> 1 battery life from my laptop, I noticed that one source of periodic disk
>> writes was the postgres stats collector process, which appears to
>> write to pgstat.tmp every 500ms)
>
> Hmm, I don't think we have an optimization to avoid writing it when the
> data hasn't changed. This seems easy to do ... see attached patch
> (untested)
Any chance something like this can make it to the patch queues.
I had also earlier noticed disks not spinning down when running
demos on my laptop.
