Re: [HACKERS] Remove lower limit on checkpoint_timeout?

On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 6:02 AM, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
> On 12/23/16 10:24 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>>> While it's not a particularly good idea to set it to 1s on a production
>>> system, I don't see why we need to prevent that. It's not like 30s is
>>> likely to be a good idea either.
>>
>>> Hence I'd like to set the lower limit to 1s.
>>
>> OK, but the documentation for it needs some work if you're going to
>> do that.  It only warns against making the timeout too large, not
>> too small.
>
> +1 for the lower limit and the docs.

I wish we were more loose regarding the limits of some parameters, see
for example this recent thread about bgwriter ones:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/f6e58a22-030b-eb8a-5457-f62fb08d701c@BlueTreble.com
So +1 for lowering checkpoint_timeout, lower values are stupid for
production systems, but not for developers.
-- 
Michael