Re: Latch for the WAL writer - further reducing idle wake-ups. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> On 7 May 2012 18:09, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I also notice that the separate-checkpointer patch failed to rename
>> assorted things like BgWriterCommLock, BgWriterRequest,
>> BgWriterShmemStruct, which are all 100% inappropriately named now.
>> And it still contains various obsolete comments referring to itself
>> as the background writer. �Will see about cleaning that up.

> For want of a better name, keeping them the same seemed best.

I was just thinking s/BgWriter/Checkpointer/, do you think that's too
long?
        regards, tom lane