On 07/03/2013 11:28 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 6/6/13 4:09 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > I don't understand what this patch, by itself, will accomplish in terms > of the originally stated goals of making checkpoint_segments easier to > tune, and controlling disk space used. To some degree, it makes both of > these things worse, because you can no longer use checkpoint_segments to > control the disk space. Instead, it is replaced by magic. > > What sort of behavior are you expecting to come out of this? In testing, > I didn't see much of a difference. Although I'd expect that this would > actually preallocate fewer segments than the old formula.
Since I haven't seen a reply to Peter's comments from Heikki, I'm marking this patch "returned with feedback". I know, it's a very busy CF, and I'm sure that you just couldn't get back to this one. We'll address it in September? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
