> The naming is not arbitrary. -1 to changing it as suggested. > > It is as Aidan says, a state between receive and fsync, normally > referred to as write. > > Plus the word remote denotes it is on the standby, not the local master. > > So both words have specific meaning, and IMHO clear meaning.
Clear to a postgres hacker, maybe. Not at *all* clear to our general users. The natural assumption is that "remote write" means that it's written to disk on the remote. Which is not what it means. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
