Shane Wright <me@shanewright.co.uk> writes:
> Although, is there any performance implication of not doing checkpoints
> very often? (aside from, I assume, that each checkpoint will take
> longer and hence saturate available I/O for longer)
Mmm, right, I forgot to mention that one, which was a bit silly
considering that that was the focus of the discussion. No, infrequent
checkpoints won't hurt performance between checkpoints.
regards, tom lane