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 -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches