Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Should we be writing until 2:30 then sleep 30 seconds and fsync at 3:00?
>
The idea of having a dead period doing no work at all between write
phase and sync phase may have some merit. I don't have enough test data
yet on some more fundamental issues in this area to comment on whether
that smaller optimization would be valuable. It may be a worthwhile
concept to throw into the sequencing.
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