On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 10:26 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Steven Elliott writes:
> > I don't think the current behavior is particularly harmful, but maybe
> > PostgreSQL could be made to idle more quietly.
>
> Yeah, this is something that's on my personal to-do list. It's not
> really an efficiency/p
Steven Elliott writes:
> I don't think the current behavior is particularly harmful, but maybe
> PostgreSQL could be made to idle more quietly.
Yeah, this is something that's on my personal to-do list. It's not
really an efficiency/performance issue, but in a machine that's
otherwise idle this b
Recently I became curious about the WAL log writer. I noticed that with
a default ACID complaint configuration that the the WAL log writer wakes
up every 200 msec (the default indicated by "wal_log_writer") and does
nothing. Here's a typical strace:
21:37:07.194809 select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {
