On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 12:50:19PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > To summarize, if we could have fsync() only write the dirty buffers that > happened as part of the checkpoint, we could delay the write() for the > entire time between checkpoints, but we can't do that, so we have to > make it user-tunable.
What about the mmap/msync(?)/munmap idea someone mentioned? -- Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match