Ian, Thomas, > Thanks; I'd seen the documentation, but not Josh Berkus' > testing.
BTW, that's still an open question for me. I'm now theorizing that it's best to set wal_buffers to the expected maximum number of concurrent write connections. However, I don't have enough test systems to test that meaningfully. Your test results will help. -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster