On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
wrote:
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> Which reason, except the faster shutdown, for a user to want that?
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May be to clean up shared buffers so that a regular backend does not need
to write the page during eviction? Of course bgwriter would that but not
under user's control. Say user wants to force a checkpoint before some high
priority, response time sensitive tasks are started. Not sure though if
this a valid use case in real world.
Thanks,
Pavan
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