On 3/28/07, Joseph S <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net> wrote:
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> Dmitry Koterov wrote:
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> > And the general question - why SELECT queries slowdown during the
> > CHECKPOINT? I thought that Postgres is a version-based database and read
> > queries are never blocked...
>
> Because the disk is busy.
Is your pg_xlog on a separate disk?