Re: XLogInsert scaling, revisited

On 27.06.2013 20:36, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2013-06-26 18:52:30 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> There's this in the comment near the top of the file:
>
> Btw, I find the 'you' used in the comment somewhat irritating. Not badly
> so, but reading something like:
>
>   * When you are about to write
>   * out WAL, it is important to call WaitXLogInsertionsToFinish() *before*
>   * acquiring WALWriteLock, to avoid deadlocks. Otherwise you might get stuck
>   * waiting for an insertion to finish (or at least advance to next
>   * uninitialized page), while you're holding WALWriteLock.
>
> just seems strange to me. If this directed at plugin authors, maybe, but
> it really isn't...

Agreed, that was bad wording. Fixed.

- Heikki