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

Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.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: 2012-06-28T18:58:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 28 June 2012 19:55, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

That is a false equivalence, and you know it.

Who said anything about PR value? I'm concerned with not confusing users.

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