In previous releases it was possible to observe whether an automatic checkpoint was in progress by looking to see if there was a postmaster child process doing one. In 8.0 this will not work because the bgwriter is always there. I am thinking that for tasks such as performance debugging it would be a good idea if the bgwriter could emit postmaster log messages at start and end of a checkpoint. However, this should probably not happen at the default LOG level since it would clutter the logs with perfectly routine messages. Any opinions about what elog level to use for this?
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