Re: checkpointer continuous flushing - V16

On 2016-02-04 16:54:58 +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
> Fabien asked me to post a new version of the checkpoint flushing patch
> series. While this isn't entirely ready for commit, I think we're
> getting closer.
>
> I don't want to post a full series right now, but my working state is
> available on
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=users/andresfreund/postgres.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/checkpoint-flush
> git://git.postgresql.org/git/users/andresfreund/postgres.git checkpoint-flush

The first two commits of the series are pretty close to being ready. I'd
welcome review of those, and I plan to commit them independently of the
rest as they're beneficial independently. The most important bits are
the comments and docs of 0002 - they weren't particularly good
beforehand, so I had to rewrite a fair bit.

0001: Make SetHintBit() a bit more aggressive, afaics that fixes all the
potential regressions of 0002
0002: Fix the overaggressive flushing by the wal writer, by only
flushing every wal_writer_delay ms or wal_writer_flush_after
bytes.

Greetings,

Andres Freund