On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> On 28 June 2012 22:22, Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com> wrote:
>>> All in all, I don't think this can be a very productive discussion
>>> unless someone just pitches a equal or better name overall in terms of
>>> conciseness and descriptiveness. I'd rather optimize for those
>>> attributes. Old advice is old; that's the nature of the beast.
>>
>> Robert suggested wal_flush_delay, which does more accurately describe
>> what happens now.
>
> Well, I learned something from reading this name, having not followed
> the mechanism too closely. I like it.
I've committed this now. In the absence of a clear consensus to
rename the GUC, I contented myself with a further overhaul of the
documentation, which will hopefully make things clear at least for
people who read the documentation.
--
Robert Haas
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