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From: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] "distributed checkpoint"
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:10:51 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0712122054590.16644@westnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712121509.55019.josh@agliodbs.com>
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Josh Berkus wrote:

> What's *wrong* with "Load Distributed Checkpoint", which is what we've 
> been calling it for 6 months?

One issue was that "distributed" has some association with distributed 
computing, which isn't actually the case.  "Spread" is also more 
descriptive of what actually ended up being committed.  Those are fairly 
subtle wording issues that I wouldn't necessarily expect to survive 
translation.

The other problem was that the original description over-sold the feature 
a bit.  It said "prevent I/O spikes" when it actually just reduces them. 
Still possible to have a spike, it probably won't be as big though.  Your 
call on whether correcting that mischaracterization is worth bothering the 
translators over.

--
* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD



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