Re: Too frequent checkpoints ?

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Pavan Deolasee
<pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> .>
>> BTW, the cause of the problem is that the following sequences happens.
>>
>> 1. archive_timeout switches WAL file because checkpoint WAL record has
>> has been written since last switch
>
> Thank you for explaining that. I also noticed that the WAL file switch
> happens after archive_timeout seconds irrespective of whether
> archive_mode is turned ON or not. This happens because we don't check
> if XLogArchivingActive() in CheckArchiveTimeout() function. It looks
> wrong to me.

+1 to fix this. I've not heard the use case where archive_timeout needs to
be used even in not archive mode...

Regards,

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Fujii Masao