Re: Maximum reasonable bgwriter_delay

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 15:53 +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> The maximum for bgwriter_delay is currently 10 seconds. That's a long 
> time, and in fact if you set it to a value greater than 1 s, the sleep 
> is split into 1 s intervals with a call to AbsorbFsyncRequests in 
> between them.
> 
> Is there a use case for a setting > 1 s? We could simplify that logic a 
> little bit if we just set the maximum at 1 s.

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