Re: Determine optimal fdatasync/fsync, O_SYNC/O_DSYNC options

>>>>> "TL" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

TL> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> If we had a majority of queries filling more than one block we would
>> be checkpointing like crazy and we don't normally get reports about
>> that.

TL> [ raised eyebrow... ] And of course the 30-second-checkpoint-warning
TL> stuff is a useless feature that no one ever exercises.

Well, last year about this time I discovered in my testing I was
excessively checkpointing; I found that the error message was
confusing, and Bruce cleaned it up. So at least one person excercised
that feature, namely me. :-)

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