"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was recently involved in a project where we had to decrease the > checkpoint_timeout . The problem was, that the database was performing > so many transactions that if we waiting for 5 minutes, checkpoint would > take entirely too long.
Seems like the correct fix for that is to make the bgwriter more aggressive. Narrowing the checkpoint spacing is a pretty horrid answer because of the resulting increase in full-page-image WAL traffic. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match