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@@ -264,8 +264,10 @@ postgres: <replaceable>user</> <replaceable>database</> <replaceable>host</> <re
and the number of times the background writer stopped a cleaning scan
because it had written too many buffers. Also includes
statistics about the shared buffer pool, including buffers written
- by backends (that is, not by the background writer) and total buffers
- allocated.
+ by backends (that is, not by the background writer), how many times
+ those backends had to execute their own fsync calls (normally the
+ background writer handles those even when the backend does its own
+ write), and total buffers allocated.
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