Re: What does "[backends] should seldom or never need to wait for a write to occur" mean? - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: What does "[backends] should seldom or never need to wait for a write to occur" mean?
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Msg-id 20201116181405.GE22426@momjian.us
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In response to Re: What does "[backends] should seldom or never need to wait for a write to occur" mean?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 12:37:30PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 05:25:30PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Hi Bruce,
> > 
> > Thanks, I absolutely agree that this documentation needs to explain properly
> > how the bgwriter works. Your latest patch looks good, it significantly improves
> > this section of the manual. I would just suggest changing "non-dirty" to
> > "clean" in "When the number of non-dirty shared buffers appears to be
> > insufficient", as this makes the language simpler and avoids introducing
> > another new term (non-dirty, which means the same as clean).
> 
> OK, done.  I wasn't sure 'clean' would be assumed to be non-dirty, but you
> are right the language is clearer with 'clean'.  (I was afraid 'clean'
> would be assumed to be 'empty'.)

Patch applied to all supported versions.

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