On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Vivek Khera wrote:
> > the restore complained often about checkpoints occurring every few
> > seconds:
> >
> > Sep 2 11:57:14 d02 postgres[49721]: [5-1] LOG: checkpoints are occurring too frequently (15 seconds apart)
> > Sep 2 11:57:14 d02 postgres[49721]: [5-2] HINT: Consider increasing CHECKPOINT_SEGMENTS.
> >
> > The HINT threw me off since I had to set checkpoint_segments in
> > postgresql.conf, where as CHECKPOINT_SEGMENTS implied to me a
> > compile-time constant.
>
> Woo hoo, my warning worked. Great.
>
> I uppercased it because config parameters are uppercased in the
> documentation. Do we mention config parameters in any other error
> messages? Should it be lowercased?
k, to me upper case denotes a compiler #define, so I would have been
confused ... I'd go with lower case and single quotes around it to denote
its a variable to be changed ...