Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 072872E3835; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:10:59 -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 16936-07; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:10:55 -0400 (AST) Received: from westnet.com (westnet.com [216.187.52.2]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF43A2E3349; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:10:54 -0400 (AST) Received: from westnet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by westnet.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBD2Apbh019045; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:10:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (gsmith@localhost) by westnet.com (8.14.0/8.13.2/Submit) with ESMTP id lBD2ApON019041; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:10:51 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: westnet.com: gsmith owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:10:51 -0500 (EST) From: Greg Smith X-X-Sender: gsmith@westnet.com To: Josh Berkus cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] "distributed checkpoint" In-Reply-To: <200712121509.55019.josh@agliodbs.com> Message-ID: References: <20071206220348.GM8451@alvh.no-ip.org> <1197051730.4255.603.camel@ebony.site> <1197058560.6307.1.camel@hannu-laptop> <200712121509.55019.josh@agliodbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200712/46 X-Sequence-Number: 4714 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