On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 07:51:31PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/runtime-config-wal.html
> Description:
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> This page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/runtime-config-wal.html
> (And probably others in other versions) has – I believe – an error in the
> description for "wal_writer_delay".
>
> It says "woken up by an asynchronously committing transaction". I suspect
> that should read "synchronously".
Uh, is this correction accurate? It seems so to me.
After flushing WAL the writer sleeps for the length of time given
by <varname>wal_writer_delay</varname>, unless woken up sooner
--> by an asynchronously committing transaction.
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