On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm finding the backend_writes column pretty unfortunate. The only
> use I know of for it is to determine if the bgwriter is lagging
> behind. Yet it doesn't serve even this purpose because it lumps
> together the backend writes due to lagging background writes, and the
> backend writes "by design" due to the use buffer access strategy
> during bulk inserts.
+1 for separating those.
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