Re: checkpoints taking much longer than expected

Greetings,

* Jeff Janes (jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 4:50 AM Tiemen Ruiten <t(dot)ruiten(at)tech-lab(dot)io> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 5:43 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> >> The time information is all there and it tells you what it's doing and
> >> how much had to be done... If you're unhappy with how long it takes to
> >> write out gigabytes of data and fsync hundreds of files, talk to your
> >> storage people...
>
> Right, but true only because they were "checkpoint starting: immediate".
> Otherwise the reported write time includes intentional sleeps added to
> honor the checkpoint_completion_target. A bit confusing to report it that
> way, I think.

Hrmpf, yeah, we could probably improve on that, I'd certainly like to
see that broken out.

Thanks,

Stephen