Re: Checkpoints are occurring too frequently...

> The "factory default" has never been 1; AFAIR it's always been 3,
> and like many of the other defaults that's aimed for small-and-slow
> machines.  If you're not short of disk space, something like 30
> is reasonable.  (Note this can cost you 32MB per increment, so a
> setting of 30 means you're willing to invest up to a gigabyte of
> disk space in WAL.  Time was when that was an astonishing amount
> of disk, but no more...)

As this is a fairly common problem, should we consider increasing the
default to 10?

J


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>             regards, tom lane
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