Re: [PERFORM] upping checkpoints on production server

2003-09-25 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 17:57, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In .conf file I have default checkpoints set to 3, but I noticed that in > > my pg_xlog directory I always seem to have at least 8 log files. Since > > this is more than the suggested 7, I'm wondering if thi

Re: [PERFORM] upping checkpoints on production server

2003-09-24 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In .conf file I have default checkpoints set to 3, but I noticed that in > my pg_xlog directory I always seem to have at least 8 log files. Since > this is more than the suggested 7, I'm wondering if this means I ought > to bump my checkpoint segments up t

[PERFORM] upping checkpoints on production server

2003-09-24 Thread Robert Treat
All this talk of checkpoints got me wondering if I have them set at an optimum level on my production servers. I noticed the following in the docs: "There will be at least one 16 MB segment file, and will normally not be more than 2 * checkpoint_segments + 1 files. You can use this to estimate sp