Re: concurrent IO in postgres?

From: Mladen Gogala <mladen(dot)gogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "wozniak(at)lanl(dot)gov" <wozniak(at)lanl(dot)gov>, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: concurrent IO in postgres?
Date: 2010-12-26 04:30:32
Message-ID: 4D16C4E8.2000404@vmsinfo.com
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Jeff Janes wrote:
> If the background writer cannot keep up, then the individual backends
> start doing writes as well, so it isn't really serialized..
>
>
Is there any parameter governing that behavior? Can you tell me where in
the code (version 9.0.2) can I find that? Thanks.

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