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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
