Re: Migrating to 8.3 - checkpoints and background writer

On Nov 4, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Greg Smith wrote:

> For those of you considering a move to the upcoming 8.3 release,
> now in beta, I've written some documentation on the changes made in
> checkpoint and background writer configuration in the new version:
>
> http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/chkp-bgw-83.htm
>
> Since the first half of that covers the current behavior in 8.1 and
> 8.2, those sections may be helpful if you'd like to know more about
> checkpoint slowdowns and ways to resolve them even if you have no
> plans to evaluate 8.3 yet. I'd certainly encourage anyone who can
> run the 8.3 beta to consider adding some tests in this area while
> there's still time to correct any issues encountered before the
> official release.

Greg, thanks a lot of this. I'd say this should definitely be linked
to from the main site's techdocs section.

Erik Jones

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