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Kevin Grittner
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Theory question Jayadevan M <maymala.jayadevan@gmail.com>
Re: Theory question Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com>
Re: Theory question Jayadevan <maymala.jayadevan@gmail.com>
Re: Theory question Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
Re: Theory question Jayadevan <maymala.jayadevan@gmail.com>
Re: Theory question Jayadevan M <maymala.jayadevan@gmail.com>
Re: Theory question Raghavendra <raghavendra.rao@enterprisedb.com>
Re: Theory question dinesh kumar <dineshkumar02@gmail.com>
Jayadevan M  wrote:

> What are the real differences between the bgwriter and
> checkpointer process? Both of them write data from the buffer to
> the data files, right? Is it just a matter of 'when' they write?

The checkpointer process is responsible for creating safe points
from which a recovery can begin; the background writer tries to
keep some pages available for re-use so that processes running
queries don't need to wait for page writes  in order to have free
spots to use in shared buffers.

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