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Re: Changing checkpoint_timeout to another name?


  • From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
  • To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
  • Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: Changing checkpoint_timeout to another name?
  • Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:02:55 -0400 (EDT)
  • Message-id: <200705301902.l4UJ2ts24545@momjian.us> <text/plain>

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am currently writing some curriculum on managing IO with PostgreSQL 
> > and I keep running into the parameter checkpolint_timeout.
> *cough* checkpoint_timeout
> 
>   This seems to
> > be incorrect as it is not really a timeout as much as an interval...

It is a timeout because of WAL fills up before the timeout you get a
checkpoint and the timer is reset.  How is it an interval?

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