On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > No, but I haven't looked at it. I am now much more concerned with the
> > > delay, and am wondering if I should start thinking about trying my idea
> > > of looking for near-committers and post the patch to the list to see if
> > > anyone likes it for 7.1 final. Vadim will not be back in enough time to
> > > write any new code in this area, I am afraid.
> >
> > Near committers? *puzzled look*
>
> Umm, uh, it means backends that have entered COMMIT and will be issuing
> an fsync() of their own very soon. It took me a while to remember what
> I mean too because I was thinking of CVS committers.
That's what I was thinking to, which was what was confusing the hell out
of me ... like, a near committer ... is that the guy sitting beside you
while you commit? :)