Improve the documentation about commit_delay.
Clarify the docs explaining what commit_delay does, and add a
recommendation about a useful value for it, namely half of the single-page
fsync time reported by pg_test_fsync. This is informed by testing of
the new-in-9.3 implementation of commit_delay; in prior versions it
was far harder to arrive at a useful setting.
In passing, do some wordsmithing and markup-fixing in the same general
area.
Also, change pg_test_fsync's default time-per-test from 2 seconds to 5.
The old value was about the minimum at which the results could be taken
seriously at all, and so seems a tad optimistic as a default.
Peter Geoghegan, reviewed by Noah Misch; some additional editing by me
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master
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/70ec2f8f4392f4e3d379c2c759789d631ffeec10
Modified Files
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contrib/pg_test_fsync/pg_test_fsync.c | 2 +-
doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 9 +-
doc/src/sgml/pgtestfsync.sgml | 8 +-
doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml | 169 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
4 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)