Re: pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make CheckRequiredParameterValues() depend upon correct - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 14:42 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> >> Why is that not called "max_wal_segments"? wal_keep_segments sounds like
> >> its been through Google translate.
> 
> > Because it's not a maximum?
> 
> Indeed.  It would really be more like min_wal_segments, if we wanted to
> name it that way.

Yeh, agreed: min_wal_segments. I realised while having dinner it was the
opposite, so I'm pleased everybody else got there at same time.

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com