Re: WAL/PITR additional items

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > 2. PreallocXlogFiles to run from a separate process to make it
> > effective, as discussed last year.
>
> What?

The discussion Simon is refering to came up during the 8.0 beta IIRC. The
problem was that we were not allocating xlogs quickly enough under
heavy workloads and there was some discussion about the bgwriter taking
over this task since it could assess the need for new xlogs more often.

Gavin