Re: Worries about delayed-commit semantics

Simon Riggs wrote:
> 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?

I like "synchronous_commit = off", it even has a little girlfriend 
getting spin while being accurate :)

Joshua D. Drake




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