Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> Theo Schlossnagle wrote:
>> First whack at exposing the start and finish checkpoint times into SQL.
> Why is that useful?
Does this implementation even work? It looks to me like the
globalStats.last_checkpoint_start/done fields will go back to zero the
very next time the bgwriter sends a stats message. I'm not sure what
a sane behavior would be, but it seems unlikely that that's it.
regards, tom lane