At Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:10:05 +1200, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote in
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 2:38 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> writes:
> > > I saw the following message recently modified.
> > >> This controls the maximum distance we can read ahead in the WAL to prefetch referenced data blocks.
> > > Maybe the "we" means "PostgreSQL program and you" but I see it
> > > somewhat out of place.
> >
> > +1, I saw that today and thought it was outside our usual style.
> > The whole thing is awfully verbose for a GUC description, too.
> > Maybe
> >
> > "Maximum distance to read ahead in WAL to prefetch data blocks."
>
> +1
>
> For "we", I must have been distracted by code comment style. For the
> extra useless verbiage, it's common for GUC description to begin "This
> control/affects/blah" like that, but I agree it's useless noise.
>
> For the other cases, Amit's suggestion of 'server' seems sensible to me.
Thaks for the opinion. I'm fine with that, too.
regards.
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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center