Re: Load Distributed Checkpoints, take 3

Greg Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Greg had worried about being able to turn this behavior off, so we'd
>> still need at least a bool, and we might as well expose the fraction
>> instead.  I agree with removing the non-LRU part of the bgwriter's
>> write logic though
>
> If you accept that being able to turn LDC off is important, people who
> aren't turning it on may still want the existing bgwriter_all_* settings
> so they can keep running things the way they are now.  It's certainly
> reasonable to skip that code path when doing things the LDC way.

Well, if you don't want anything to change, don't upgrade.

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