Re: pgsql: Improve wording.

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:32:51AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:48:31PM +0000, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > Log Message:
> > > -----------
> > > Improve wording.
>
> I agree that the parenthised phrase should be removed.
>
> http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml?r1=1.387&r2=1.391

That's fine with me. It's just that I figured that if we're going to
add something, we should at least add something factually accurate.

> I think your proposed wording is removed enough from what the
> complainant was saying that it is not worth to stick it in.  The point
> here is, to what extent do we want to spoon-feed careless sysadmins?

Not sure what the complaint was. The only useful advice I can think of
is that before turning it on you need to makes sure you have lots of
swap. For the rest, I think the wording was fine as it was.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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