Re: Checkpoints occur too frequently

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> I'd say no code changes for 8.0, now we know what's causing it. A doc
>> patch to show the limit is probably just going to annoy the translators
>> at this stage also.

> We could adjust guc.c to limit checkpoint_segments to the range 1..255
> without having to touch any translatable strings.  This isn't a
> necessary change but it seems harmless ... any objections?

Or we could just fix it.  After thinking a bit more, I realized that
it's not hard to push the forced-checkpoint boundary out to 2^32
segments instead of 255.  That should be enough to still any complaints.

            regards, tom lane