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| author | Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org> | 2012-01-19 21:52:51 -0500 |
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| committer | Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org> | 2012-01-19 21:53:46 -0500 |
| commit | c8397bd6d909620457b532e252ce2e437c787d4f (patch) | |
| tree | ca6b72715cdf650e5c3820e31716e782b9be8415 | |
| parent | ecf7a2ea387a409f6152c05f60e5765c7436b8df (diff) | |
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Clarify that bgwriter no longer handles checkpoints.
Text by Peter Geoghegan.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml index 0cc329691dd..58e8ede239f 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml @@ -1342,7 +1342,8 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF; <para> In each round, no more than this many buffers will be written by the background writer. Setting this to zero disables - background writing (except for checkpoint activity). + background writing. (Note that checkpoints, which are managed by + a separate, dedicated auxiliary process, are unaffected.) The default value is 100 buffers. This parameter can only be set in the <filename>postgresql.conf</> file or on the server command line. |