[DOCS] high-availability.sgml improvements

2011-03-17 Thread Erik Rijkers
Some high-availability.sgml improvements.

thanks,

Erik Rijkers
--- doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml.orig	2011-03-17 19:57:28.0 +0100
+++ doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml	2011-03-17 20:15:37.0 +0100
@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@
  might indicate that the master server is under heavy load, while
  differences between sent_location and 
  pg_last_xlog_receive_location on the standby might indicate
- network delay, or that the the standby is under heavy load.
+ network delay, or that thendby is under heavy load.
 

 
@@ -946,13 +946,13 @@
 

 After a commit record has been written to disk on the primary the
-WAL record is then sent to the standby. The standby sends reply
+WAL record is sent to the standby. The standby sends reply
 messages each time a new batch of WAL data is received, unless
 wal_receiver_status_interval is set to zero on the standby.
 If the standby is the first matching standby, as specified in
 synchronous_standby_names on the primary, the reply
 messages from that standby will be used to wake users waiting for
-confirmation the commit record has been received. These parameters
+confirmation that the commit record has been received. These parameters
 allow the administrator to specify which standby servers should be
 synchronous standbys. Note that the configuration of synchronous
 replication is mainly on the master.
@@ -968,7 +968,7 @@
 Note also that synchronous_commit is used when the user
 specifies synchronous_replication, overriding even an
 explicit setting of synchronous_commit to off.
-This is because we must write WAL to disk on primary before we replicate
+This is because WAL must be written to disk on the primary before replication
 to ensure the standby never gets ahead of the primary.

 
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@
 

 With synchronous replication options specified at the application level
-(on the primary) we can offer sync rep for the most important changes,
+(on the primary) we can offer synchronous replication for the most important changes,
 without slowing down the bulk of the total workload. Application level
 options are an important and practical tool for allowing the benefits of
 synchronous replication for high performance applications.
@@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@
 your last remaining sync standby. This can be achieved by naming multiple
 potential synchronous standbys using synchronous_standby_names.
 The first named standby will be used as the synchronous standby. Standbys
-listed after this will takeover the role of synchronous standby if the
+listed after this will take over the role of synchronous standby if the
 first one should fail.

 
@@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@
 we move to real-time STREAMING state.
 The catch-up duration may be long immediately after the standby has
 been created. If the standby is shutdown, then the catch-up period
-will increase according to the length of time the standby has been down.
+will increase according to the length of time the standby is down.
 The standby is only able to become a synchronous standby
 once it has reached STREAMING state.

@@ -1064,15 +1064,15 @@

 

-If the primary is isolated from remaining standby severs you should
-failover to the best candidate of those other remaining standby servers.
+If the primary is isolated from remaining standby servers you should
+failover to the best candidate of the remaining standby servers.

 

 If you need to re-create a standby server while transactions are
 waiting, make sure that the commands to run pg_start_backup() and
 pg_stop_backup() are run in a session with
-synchronous_replication = off, otherwise those requests will wait
+synchronous_replication = off, otherwise those requests will wait
 forever for the standby to appear.

 
@@ -1130,7 +1130,7 @@
 and might stay down.  To return to normal operation, a standby server
 must be recreated,
 either on the former primary system when it comes up, or on a third,
-possibly new, system. Once complete the primary and standby can be
+possibly new, system. Once complete, the primary and standby can be
 considered to have switched roles. Some people choose to use a third
 server to provide backup for the new primary until the new standby
 server is recreated,
@@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@
 file with the filename and path specified by the trigger_file
 setting in recovery.conf. If you're planning to use
 pg_ctl promote to fail over, trigger_file is
-not required. If you're setting up the reporting servers that are
+not required. If you're setting up reporting servers that are
 only used to offload read-only queries from the primary, not for high
 availability purposes, you don't need to exit recovery in the standby
 and p

Re: [DOCS] high-availability.sgml improvements

2011-03-17 Thread Erik Rijkers
On Thu, March 17, 2011 20:29, Erik Rijkers wrote:
> Some high-availability.sgml improvements.
>
> thanks,
>
> Erik Rijkers
>

Oops, the first change in that diff I just sent was mangled  - sorry about that.

( it was a simple  'the the' -> 'the' ):



--- doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml.orig2011-03-17 
19:57:28.0 +0100
+++ doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml2011-03-17 20:15:37.0 
+0100
@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@
  might indicate that the master server is under heavy load, while
  differences between sent_location and
  pg_last_xlog_receive_location on the standby might indicate
- network delay, or that the the standby is under heavy load.
+ network delay, or that the standby is under heavy load.
 




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Re: [DOCS] high-availability.sgml improvements

2011-03-17 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Erik Rijkers  wrote:
> Oops, the first change in that diff I just sent was mangled  - sorry about 
> that.
>
> ( it was a simple  'the the' -> 'the' ):

This patch didn't apply cleanly for me, but I've extracted some of the
changes therein by visual inspection, and committed them along with a
few corrections of my own.

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