Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 20:48, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I'm not necessarily opposed to commandeering the name "smart" for the
>> new behavior, so that what we have to find a name for is the old "smart"
>> behavior. How about
>>
>> slow - allow existing sessions to finish (old "smart")
> How about "wait" instead of "slow"?
I kinda liked "slow" vs "fast", but if you think that's too cute ...
("wait" doesn't seem very good, though, since all these except immediate
are waiting, just for different things.)
>> smart - allow existing transactions to finish (new)
> and still default, right?
Right.
>> fast - kill active queries
>> immediate - unclean shutdown
regards, tom lane