Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BAD42E0273; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:43:35 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 50468-03; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:43:31 -0400 (AST) Received: from fetter.org (start.fetter.org [66.92.188.65]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 539DF2E014C; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:43:31 -0400 (AST) Received: by fetter.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1843DFBCE63; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:43:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:43:29 -0800 From: David Fetter To: "Joshua D. Drake" Cc: Tom Lane , Alvaro Herrera , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] "distributed checkpoint" Message-ID: <20071207034328.GB18310@fetter.org> References: <20071206220348.GM8451@alvh.no-ip.org> <5958.1196991889@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20071206191944.1d7926d2@commandprompt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071206191944.1d7926d2@commandprompt.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200712/28 X-Sequence-Number: 4696 On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 07:19:44PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:44:49 -0500 > Tom Lane wrote: > > > Alvaro Herrera 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. -- David Fetter http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate