[HACKERS] why we need both the collector & buffer process

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 yo

Re: [HACKERS] why we need both the collector & buffer process

information from the buffer process and writing them to the file . and this is the main body of collector process. Any function else to do the checkpoint job? Best Wishes! William    Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: =?gb2312?q?William.Jiang?= wrote:> > hi,all hackers of post