Re: Changing checkpoint_timeout to another name?

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Changing checkpoint_timeout to another name?
Date: 2007-05-30 19:02:55
Message-ID: 200705301902.l4UJ2ts24545@momjian.us
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am currently writing some curriculum on managing IO with PostgreSQL
> > and I keep running into the parameter checkpolint_timeout.
> *cough* checkpoint_timeout
>
> This seems to
> > be incorrect as it is not really a timeout as much as an interval...

It is a timeout because of WAL fills up before the timeout you get a
checkpoint and the timer is reset. How is it an interval?

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