Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ... If they'd have noticed it while the server was up, perhaps because the 
> "last checkpoint" value hadn't changed in a long time (which seems like it 
> might be available via stats even if, as you say, the background writer is 
> out of its mind at that point), they could have done such a kill and 
> collected some actual useful information here.  That's the theory at 
> least.

Well, mebbe, but that still seems to require a lot of custom monitoring
infrastructure that is not present in this patch, and furthermore that
this patch doesn't especially aid the development of.

                        regards, tom lane

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