Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 772482E2F1C; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:32:16 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 68674-01; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:32:13 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D772E2E2F15; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:32:12 -0400 (AST) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id m26GW3L04395; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:32:03 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200803061632.m26GW3L04395@momjian.us> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] bgwriter_lru_multiplier blurbs inconsistent In-Reply-To: <19882.1200886188@sss.pgh.pa.us> To: Tom Lane Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:32:03 -0500 (EST) CC: Greg Smith , Alvaro Herrera , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, Hackers X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="ELM1204821123-8024-1_" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200803/33 X-Sequence-Number: 4845 --ELM1204821123-8024-1_ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Tom Lane wrote: > Greg Smith writes: > > On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Tom Lane wrote: > >> I think the main problem is the qualifying clause up front in a place > >> of prominence. Here's a V3 try > > > That one looks good to me. These are small details but better to get it > > right now. > > OK, committed. Back to Alvaro's original concern: is the short > description in guc.c all right, or can we improve that? I have tried to improve the GUC description for "bgwriter_lru_multiplier"; applied to CVS HEAD. -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + --ELM1204821123-8024-1_ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/x-diff Content-Disposition: inline; filename="/rtmp/diff" Index: src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c,v retrieving revision 1.432 diff -c -c -r1.432 guc.c *** src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c 30 Jan 2008 18:35:55 -0000 1.432 --- src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c 6 Mar 2008 16:22:44 -0000 *************** *** 1841,1847 **** { {"bgwriter_lru_multiplier", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES, ! gettext_noop("Background writer multiplier on average buffers to scan per round."), NULL }, &bgwriter_lru_multiplier, --- 1841,1847 ---- { {"bgwriter_lru_multiplier", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES, ! gettext_noop("Multiple of the average buffer usage to free per round."), NULL }, &bgwriter_lru_multiplier, --ELM1204821123-8024-1_--