On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Setting a latch that's already set is fast,
> but surely it's even faster to not even try.
Agreed. I think we should SetLatch() at the first point a backend
writes a dirty buffer because the bgwriter has been inactive.
Continually waking the bgwriter makes it harder for it to return to sleep.
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