Re: [DOCS] "distributed checkpoint"

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 07:19:44PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
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> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> > > Am I the only one who finds the phrase "distributed checkpointing"
> > > a bit awkward?  Would it be better if we used "time-distributed
> > > checkpointing" instead?
> >
> > Yeah, "distributed" has a bunch of connotations that are wrong for
> > this purpose.
> >
> > I spent a bit of time with a thesaurus but didn't come up with
> > anything that seemed le mot juste.  Best I could do was "spread
> > checkpoint" or "time-extended checkpoint".  Anybody have a better
> > idea?
>
> balanced
> gradual
> extended (I see you mention time-extended but wouldn't time be implicit
> based on the actual docs and thus we only need extended?)

How about "smoothed?"

Cheers,
David.
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