Re: Publish checkpoint timing and sync files summary data to pg_stat_bgwriter

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> I'm finding the backend_writes column pretty unfortunate. The only
>> use I know of for it is to determine if the bgwriter is lagging
>> behind. Yet it doesn't serve even this purpose because it lumps
>> together the backend writes due to lagging background writes, and the
>> backend writes "by design" due to the use buffer access strategy
>> during bulk inserts.
>>
>
> +1 for separating those.
>

I'm tied up with some on-site things until Friday, can rev the patch
with this in mind (and clear some of my overall review work pile) then.

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