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Re: Possible inaccurate description of wal_compression in docs

Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou@gmail.com>

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From: Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, Jingtang Zhang <mrdrivingduck@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-08-13T05:33:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 06:59:55PM +0300, Andrey Borodin wrote:
> > FPWs are used here and there in a lot of places, like "FPI for
> > hint". And indexes are build using FPI for many years, it did not
> > start with 17...
> > This list is not exhaustive in any case, so I agree that formulation
> > should not be very strict.
>
> Perhaps, yes, the formulation used in this paragraph could be a bit
> more evasive.  What we do not want is to keep a wording that would
> require more maintenance each time the internals of the backend are
> changed, so adding an extra "like" may be OK.
>
> Do any of you have a specific wording in mind?
>
>
"Like" LGMT.

Best,
Xuneng

Commits

  1. doc: Improve description of wal_compression