* Michael Nolan: > If you archive your WAL files, wouldn't that give you a pretty good > indication of write activity? WAL archiving may increase WAL traffic considerably, I think. Fresh table contents (after CREATE TABLE or TRUNCATE) is written to the log if WAL archiving is active. This would have a significant performance impact on some of our loads. -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general