Re: PreallocXlogFiles

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 01:44, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Agreed.  Maybe it should be part of the bgwriter's idle loop, and
>> not directly associated with checkpoints at all.

> Yes, thats a more natural home, now bgwriter exists. But does it know
> when log files are full? How would it know?

It can run PreallocXlogFiles --- or more likely a modified version of
same.  There isn't anything that function needs to do that the bgwriter
can't do (in fact, the bgwriter is what runs checkpoints now...)
        regards, tom lane