=?gb2312?q?William.Jiang?= wrote: > > hi,all hackers of postgres > > when postmaster start as a service . another two > processes(collector & buffer ) start their work at the same > time. > > I have read the code and I am wondering why we need two > processes to do the work. I think one process can work as > well. Are there something special you considered when you > developed this feature?
One collects statistics for the pg_stat tables, and the other does checkpoints. They are different functions. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])