On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm finding the backend_writes column pretty unfortunate. The only > use I know of for it is to determine if the bgwriter is lagging > behind. Yet it doesn't serve even this purpose because it lumps > together the backend writes due to lagging background writes, and the > backend writes "by design" due to the use buffer access strategy > during bulk inserts.
+1 for separating those. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
