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Re: Add A Glossary

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>, Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>, Roger Harkavy <rogerharkavy@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2020-03-24T18:46:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-docs 
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 3:58 PM Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
> > +      A process that writes dirty pages and <glossterm>WAL
> > +      Records</glossterm> to the file system and creates a special
>
> Does the chckpointer actually write WAL ?

Yes.

> An FK doesn't require the values in its table to be unique, right ?

I believe it does require that the values are unique.

> I think there's some confusion.  Constraints are not objects, right ?

I think constraints are definitely objects. They have names and you
can, for example, COMMENT on them.

> Do we use shared_buffers for WAL ?

No.

(I have not reviewed the patch; these are just a few comments on your comments.)

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

Commits

  1. Glossary: Add term "base backup"

  2. Minor glossary tweaks

  3. Adjust some glossary terms

  4. Fix more typos and grammar problems in the glossary

  5. Review of the glossary

  6. Add a glossary to the documentation