Re: Fast or immediate shutdown

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 17:04 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On tis, 2009-12-15 at 17:19 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > running with log_checkpoints = on
> > > 
> > > pg_ctl -D foo -m fast stop
> > > 
> > > log says
> > > 
> > > LOG:  received fast shutdown request
> > > LOG:  aborting any active transactions
> > > LOG:  shutting down
> > > LOG:  restartpoint starting: shutdown immediate
> > > 
> > > Some of us know that the "immediate" word refers to the restartpoint
> > > request, though that word causes conceptual conflict with the shutdown
> > > mode, which was fast, not immediate.
> > > 
> > > Think we need to change the wording of this
> > > 
> > > LOG:  restartpoint starting: shutdown immediate
> > > 
> > > so it is clearer what we mean
> > 
> > We *do* we mean?  And why are we logging it?
> 
> The words after the colon refer to options sent to RequestCheckpoint and
> it is logged because we asked for it by doing log_checkpoints = on.
> 
> I suggest we say "smoothed" when checkpoint option is !immediate. So we
> will remove the word "immediate" from the message.

Did we decide not the change this?

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