Re: Checkpoint versus Background Writer

I do not understand your statement

Thanks,

Sunday Olutayo

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From: "Shiv Sharma" <shiv(dot)sharma(dot)1835(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "SUNDAY A. OLUTAYO" <olutayo(at)sadeeb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 9:41:58 PM
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Checkpoint versus Background Writer

>Checkpoint is different to background writer though works together
>BGW continuously write buffer to disk but checkpoint is interval default to 5min at which the process call >BGW to flush the entire buffer to disk

But with 8.3 and checkpoint_completion_target, is not the checkpoint spread out too? (or can be spread out).

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:58 AM, SUNDAY A. OLUTAYO < olutayo(at)sadeeb(dot)com > wrote:

Checkpoint is different to background writer though works together
BGW continuously write buffer to disk but checkpoint is interval default to 5min at which the process call BGW to flush the entire buffer to disk

Thanks,

Sunday Olutayo

From: "Shiv Sharma" < shiv(dot)sharma(dot)1835(at)gmail(dot)com >
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 8:46:42 PM
Subject: [NOVICE] Checkpoint versus Background Writer

They seem to do similar things: clear dirty buffers from shared_buffers to disk.

So why have 2 processes with seperate semantics (seperate set of config partms) ?

Assuming PG is multi-threaded, can't we simply have multiple threads of the checkpoint achieve the same result as (checkpoint + bg)

Shiv