Re: Correction for vacuum_multixact_failsafe_age

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Pavel Luzanov <p(dot)luzanov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Peter G <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Subject: Re: Correction for vacuum_multixact_failsafe_age
Date: 2021-10-12 17:46:23
Message-ID: 202110121746.guls5u4g4lye@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2021-Oct-12, Pavel Luzanov wrote:

> Hello,
>
> > > When trying to make a link to the new vacuum_multixact_failsafe_age parameter,
> > > I found the wrong ID for this guc (missed word vacuum).
> > > Please consider this patch for a fix.
> > It is good to be consistent, but the name of the link is not essential, is it?
> > Changing it might break existing outside links.
>
> Not essential, it's true. I haven't seen any rules in the documentation
> on forming links for guc.
>
> But how many external links could have been made since September 30?
> And how many times in the future will people encounter inconsistency
> in constructing a link to this parameter?
>
> It seems to me that it's better to fix it.

Yeah, this one is new as of commit 1e55e7d1755c; ISTM we should just fix it.

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