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Re: Uh, I change my mind about commit_delay + commit_siblings (sort of)

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-06-28T18:55:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> You think it will confuse users less if we start telling them to use
> something that we have a very long history of telling them not to use?

I don't buy this line of reasoning at all.  If we're going to rename
the GUC, it should be for accuracy, not PR value.  If we start
renaming something every time we improve it, we're going to go nuts.
We improved lots of things in 9.2; they didn't all get renamed.

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Robert Haas
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