Re: Worries about delayed-commit semantics

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 14:29 +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.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?

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