On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:34:47PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Mmm, right, I forgot to mention that one, which was a bit silly > considering that that was the focus of the discussion. No, infrequent > checkpoints won't hurt performance between checkpoints.
In my experience, though, they do hurt _quite substantially_ during the checkpoint. If you need fast all the time, cranking that interval too high will definitely hurt you. A -- Andrew Sullivan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] The fact that technology doesn't work is no bar to success in the marketplace. --Philip Greenspun ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])