Re: Do checkpoints flush all data from shared buffers ?

Fabrice Franquenk <Fabrice.Franquenk@bull.net> writes:
> Because i was trying to lower I/Os of the disks, i got the checkpoint
> timeout lowered to 150 seconds so i get twice the number the checkpoint.
> I was hoping it would reduce the number of  I/Os on the disks because
> there would be less data to write in datafiles...

No, that's going to *increase* the amount of I/O: pages will be forced
to disk more often, and what's worse you'll be increasing the volume of
WAL data because of extra post-checkpoint page images written to WAL.

As a rule of thumb, you want checkpoints to occur as far apart as you
can stand, remembering that a longer distance back to the last
checkpoint means longer recovery time after a crash.

            regards, tom lane