On Jan 18, 2008 4:58 AM, Adrian Moisey <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We use a lot of checkpoints in our database, we don't care about these > much. We think this is causing the checkpoint to write a lot of data at > checkpoint time. Can we stop this behavior ? You can smooth out the checkpoint behaviour by using that link I posted earlier to tune your bgwriter to write things out ahead of when the checkpoint will occurr. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate