"Carlos H. Reimer" <carlos.reimer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > There is an article about "Lowering the priority of a PostgreSQL query" > (http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/?p=11) that explains how to use the > setpriority() to lower PostgreSQL processes. > I?m wondering how much effective it would be for i/o bound systems. That article isn't worth the electrons it's written on. Aside from the I/O point, there's a little problem called "priority inversion". See the archives for (many) past discussions of nice'ing backends. regards, tom lane
