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Re: [HACKERS] Re: Faster CREATE DATABASE by delaying fsync (was 8.4.1 ubuntu karmic slow createdb)

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, Michael Clemmons <glassresistor@gmail.com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndquadrant.com>, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Date: 2010-02-07T16:24:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance 
Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> This is turning into yet another one of those situations where something 
> simple and useful is being killed by trying to generalize it way more 
> than it needs to be, given its current goals and its lack of external 
> interfaces.  There's no catversion bump or API breakage to hinder future 
> refactoring if this isn't optimally designed internally from day one.

I agree that it's too late in the cycle for any major redesign of the
patch.  But is it too much to ask to use a less confusing name for the
function?

			regards, tom lane