Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Daniel Barlow wrote:
>> 1 battery life from my laptop, I noticed that one source of periodic disk 
>> writes was the postgres stats collector process, which appears to 
>> write to pgstat.tmp every 500ms)
> 
> Hmm, I don't think we have an optimization to avoid writing it when the
> data hasn't changed.  This seems easy to do ... see attached patch
> (untested)

Any chance something like this can make it to the patch queues.
I had also earlier noticed disks not spinning down when running
demos on my laptop.

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