On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I felt (and still feel) that this was misguided.
>
> Looking at it again, I'm inclined to agree. The behavior was entirely
> correct up until somebody decided to emit a continuing stream of
> XLOG_RUNNING_XACTS WAL records even when the system is idle. Why did
> we not fix it by fixing that?
That's exactly what I think we should have done.
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