Hi All,
I've been asked to assist another group in our company and their db configuration is a little confusing to me. The database is not replicated, but it is running WAL archiving. I've
been looking at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/wal-configuration.html and my confusion regards the 4th paragraph:
"The server's checkpointer process automatically performs a checkpoint every so often. A checkpoint is created every checkpoint_segments log segments, or every checkpoint_timeout
seconds, whichever comes first. The default settings are 3 segments and 300 seconds (5 minutes), respectively. In cases where no WAL has been written since the previous checkpoint,
new checkpoints will be skipped even if checkpoint_timeout has passed. If WAL archiving is being used and you want to put a lower limit on how often files are archived in order to
bound potential data loss, you should adjust archive_timeout parameter rather than the checkpoint parameters..."
So, are docs saying that checkpoint_timeout is ignored if you have a value for archive_timeout or is it still used? This server currently has:
checkpoint_segments=32
checkpoint_timeout = 5min #default
archive_timeout=3600
and I'm not sure these make sense together in light of this paragraph.
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Jay
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