Re: WAL & SHM principles - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tim Allen
Subject Re: WAL & SHM principles
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0103082041350.2380-100000@bee.proximity.com.au
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In response to Re: WAL & SHM principles  (Martin Devera <devik@cdi.cz>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Martin Devera wrote:

> > > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > Unfortunately, this alone is a *fatal* objection.  See nearby
> > > discussions about WAL behavior: we must be able to control the relative
> > > timing of WAL write/flush and data page writes.
> > 
> > Bummer.
> > 
> BTW, what means "bummer" ?

It's a Postgres-specific extension to the SQL standard. It means "I am
disappointed". As far as I can tell, you _may_ use it as a column or table
name. :-)

Tim

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