On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 19:43 -0800, David Fetter wrote: > 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?"
Agreed "Smoothed" makes a lot of sense for me. We used to have a checkpoint spike, now we don't. Perhaps we should say something like "time extended checkpoints provide smoother (transaction?) response times" -- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
