Bruce Momjian wrote: > What about the original request to turn off the bgwriter? Would setting > the delay to a very high value do that?
Setting the delay to the same value as checkpoint_timeout would effectivly disable bgwriter between checkpoints. This is what I wanted. The problem is that this is currently not possible, since bgwriter_delay has an upper limit of 5 seconds. Tom said this could be fixed. Perhaps add as open item? Best Regards, Michael Paesold ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly