Re: Too frequent checkpoints ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Fujii Masao
Subject Re: Too frequent checkpoints ?
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Msg-id CAHGQGwFVjjfzSgmttziNPSRYv76zgoh8D18tc6KMWbhSaVBWNA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Too frequent checkpoints ?  (Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Pavan Deolasee
<pavan.deolasee@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> .>
>> BTW, the cause of the problem is that the following sequences happens.
>>
>> 1. archive_timeout switches WAL file because checkpoint WAL record has
>>     has been written since last switch
>
> Thank you for explaining that. I also noticed that the WAL file switch
> happens after archive_timeout seconds irrespective of whether
> archive_mode is turned ON or not. This happens because we don't check
> if XLogArchivingActive() in CheckArchiveTimeout() function. It looks
> wrong to me.

+1 to fix this. I've not heard the use case where archive_timeout needs to
be used even in not archive mode...

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao



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