| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Worries about delayed-commit semantics |
| Date: | 2007-06-22 14:43:00 |
| Message-ID: | 200706221443.l5MEh0P24230@momjian.us |
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 14:29 +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
> > "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> >
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > >
> > >> untrustworthy disk hardware, for instance. I'd much rather use names
> > >> derived from "deferred commit" or "delayed commit" or some such.
> > >
> > > Honestly, I prefer these names as well as it seems directly related versus
> > > transaction guarantee which sounds to be more like us saying, if we turn it off
> > > our transactions are bogus.
>
> That was the intention..., but name change accepted.
>
> > Hm, another possibility: "synchronous_commit = off"
>
> Ooo, I like that. Any other takers?
Yea, I like that too but I am now realizing that we are not really
deferring or delaying the "COMMIT" command but rather the recovery of
the commit. GUC as full_commit_recovery?
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