Re: Performance lossage in checkpoint dumping

> > No, but I haven't looked at it.  I am now much more concerned with the
> > delay, and am wondering if I should start thinking about trying my idea
> > of looking for near-committers and post the patch to the list to see if
> > anyone likes it for 7.1 final.  Vadim will not be back in enough time to
> > write any new code in this area, I am afraid.
> 
> Near committers? *puzzled look*

Umm, uh, it means backends that have entered COMMIT and will be issuing
an fsync() of their own very soon.  It took me a while to remember what
I mean too because I was thinking of CVS committers.

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