Re: Hot standby having high requested checkpoints?

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Brian Fehrle
<brianf@consistentstate.com> wrote:

> I have two PostgreSQL 9.0.5 clusters, one is a master and the other is a hot
> standby via streaming replication. I'm monitoring some stats on each and I'm
> noticing something very odd. On the master, I get between 2 and 4 requested
> checkpoints per hour, but on the hot standby I'm seeing between 200 and 300
> requested checkpoints per hour.

We don't do a restartpoint on the standby unless we see a checkpoint
record, so that result should be impossible.

So I'm guessing you're reading the stats wrong?

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