Oh, and another point I forgot to mention, is that you'd need to increase checkpoint segments to get a longer time between checkpoints as well. But honestly, do a search on the archives for tuning the background writer, it's a much better option for most workloads. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match