Re: checkpointer continuous flushing - V16

On 2016-02-11 19:44:25 +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
> 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.

I've pushed these after some more polishing, now working on the next
two.

Greetings,

Andres Freund