Re: pgbench questions

On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 02:25, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: 
> > (2) At least in the current CVS version, the code to do a 'CHECKPOINT'
> >     after creating a table has been #ifdef'ed out. Why is that?
> 
> That is not after creation of a table, but while creating it, which is
> not necessary any more since Tom has fix the growth of WAL logs.
> 

Tatsou:

Could you or Tom give me some background on what this change was about?
Is this something recent, or would it have been in CVS about a month
ago?

I can't see any reason to force a checkpoint after CREATE TABLE, but it
would be interesting to know why it was done before.

;John Nield

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J. R. Nield
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