Uh, we need a context diff for this.
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 15:01 +0200, Reviewer wrote:
>
> > I just read your patch in order to understand a little bit what will
> > happen in the next release.
>
> Thanks for the review. v2 attached.
>
> > About the guc variable wal_writer_delay, you say at the end:
> > "This parameter can only
> > + be set in the postgresql.conf file or on the server command line."
> >
> > Well, I don't really understand if this parameter is set only at server
> > startup or if it is possible to modify the postgresql.conf file and then
> > reload the conf-files.
>
> A common confusion. I'm not personally in favour of using that phrase in
> the docs, though it is the standard description of when to set this type
> of parameter, so I have followed the convention.
>
> > Also, in the part about synchronous commit and fsync=off, there's just a
> > missing verb, I think you should insist between the two possibilities :
> > system or database server crash, maybe by using some bold.
>
> I've reworded that part. Thanks for spotting this.
>
> > From a user point of view, I think the documentation is clear enough,
> > but I admit beeing a bit lost in the real end of the explanation, the
> > part about the transaction status hint bits but I think it's not that
> > important. I think I understood synchronous and asynchronous commits.
>
> I've added to and reworked that a bit also.
>
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> Simon Riggs
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