On 3/28/07, Joseph S <jks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is your pg_xlog on a separate disk?
Dmitry Koterov wrote:
> And the general question - why SELECT queries slowdown during the
> CHECKPOINT? I thought that Postgres is a version-based database and read
> queries are never blocked...
Because the disk is busy.
Is your pg_xlog on a separate disk?