"Carlos H. Reimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There is an article about "Lowering the priority of a PostgreSQL query"
> (http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/?p=11) that explains how to use the
> setpriority() to lower PostgreSQL processes.
> I?m wondering how much effective it would be for i/o bound systems.
That article isn't worth the electrons it's written on. Aside from the
I/O point, there's a little problem called "priority inversion". See
the archives for (many) past discussions of nice'ing backends.
regards, tom lane
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