Re: Remaining 'needs review' patchs in July commitfest - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2015-07-28 22:51:55 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>> checkpoint continuous flushing

>> This does a big memory allocation at checkpoint, which Tom vehemently
>> objects to.

> Uh. Didn't he just object to failing in that case?

Right.  If it can fall back to "stupid" mode when there's not spare
memory, I'd be ok with that.
        regards, tom lane