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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2008-03-05 17:00:40 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2008-03-05 17:00:40 +0000
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Document that increasing the number of checkpoints segments or
checkpoint timeout can incrase the time needed for crash recovery, per suggestion from Simon.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index e910706a313..0227c4461bb 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.164 2008/02/02 23:29:12 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.164.2.1 2008/03/05 17:00:40 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter Id="runtime-config">
<title>Server Configuration</title>
@@ -1584,9 +1584,10 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF;
</indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>
- Maximum distance between automatic WAL checkpoints, in log
- file segments (each segment is normally 16 megabytes). The
- default is three segments.
+ Maximum number of log file segments between automatic WAL
+ checkpoints (each segment is normally 16 megabytes). The default
+ is three segments. Increasing this parameter can increase the
+ amount of time needed for crash recovery.
This parameter can only be set in the <filename>postgresql.conf</>
file or on the server command line.
</para>
@@ -1602,6 +1603,8 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF;
<para>
Maximum time between automatic WAL checkpoints, in
seconds. The default is five minutes (<literal>5min</>).
+ Increasing this parameter can increase the amount of time needed
+ for crash recovery.
This parameter can only be set in the <filename>postgresql.conf</>
file or on the server command line.
</para>