Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since the whole background writer setup is kind of complicated, the other > thing I was working on is writing a guide on how to use the new > pg_stat_bgwriter information to figure out if you need to increase > bgwriter_[all|lru]_pages (and the other parameters too). It makes it much > easier to write that if you can say "You can safely set > bgwriter_lru_maxpages high because it only writes what it needs to based > on your usage".
If you can write something like that, why do we need the parameter at all? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings