Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at> writes:
> Tom: If your ratio of physical pages vs WAL records is so bad, the config
> should simply be changes to do fewer checkpoints (say every 20 min like a
> typical Informix setup).
I was using the default configuration. What caused the problem was
probably not so much the standard 5-minute time-interval-driven
checkpoints, as it was the standard every-3-WAL-segments checkpoints.
Possibly we ought to increase that number?
regards, tom lane