Re: pgsql: Report progress of startup operations that take a long time.

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-committers <pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Report progress of startup operations that take a long time.
Date: 2021-11-05 14:32:38
Message-ID: 202111051432.x7qdfd4umrvz@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2021-Oct-29, Robert Haas wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 5:23 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> > I noticed that the docs for this don't mention the default value and how
> > can it be changed. I propose something like the attached, where I also
> > change the order of things so that the example is in a separate
> > paragraph and the reference blurb is all together.
>
> OK. I don't mind that. I wasn't sure if it was our practice to mention
> the default value in all cases. Maybe I should have checked more
> carefully.

Thanks. I only noticed because I got curious about what the default
was :-)

> > I was also going to complain that this failed to keep the alphabetical
> > order of the entries, but there was quite a mess already before this
> > patch, so I'd rather not get into that.
>
> Well, I suppose that's up to you. :-)

I'll leave that for some other day :-)

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