Re: Changing checkpoint_timeout to another name?

["Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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?

because if it doesn't, it will checkpoint at that timeout which is an 
interval :). It depends on how you look at it I guess. For me, I try to 
make sure we are never rolling our logs until checkpoint, so it is an 
interval.

Joshua D. Drake


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