Re: checkpoints, proper config

On 12/10/2015 11:45 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tomas Vondra wrote:
>
>> Also, I don't think it makes much sense to set
>>
>>     (checkpoint_warning > checkpoint_timeout)
>>
>> as it kinda defeats the whole purpose of the warning.
>
> I agree, but actually, what is the sense of checkpoint_warning?  I think
> it was useful back when we didn't have log_checkpoints, but now that we
> have detailed checkpoint logging I think it's pretty much useless noise.
>

Not entirely. The WARNING only triggers when you get below the 30s (or
whatever value is set in the config) and explicitly warns you about
doing checkpoints too often. log_checkpoints=on logs all checkpoints and
you have to do further analysis on the data (and it's just LOG).


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