From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(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 14:50:01 |
Message-ID: | 467BE199.5030506@commandprompt.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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?
recovery is a bad word I think. It is related too closely to failure.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
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