Re: [DOCS] "distributed checkpoint"

A Dijous 06 Desembre 2007, Alvaro Herrera va escriure: > Am I the only one who finds the phrase "distributed checkpointing" a bit > awkward? Would it be better if we used "time-distributed checkpointing" > instead? > > The phrase is used in the release notes, but it's not used anywhere in > the ma

Re: [DOCS] [HACKERS] Uniform policy for author credits in contrib module documentation?

Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Historically, the only way to troubleshoot some of the contrib modules > was to e-mail the author. If people think that we've reached a standard > that everything in /contrib is now well-documented and supported by the > general community, the I suppose

[DOCS] Re: [HACKERS] Uniform policy for author credits in contrib module documentation?

Tom, If we do want to keep credits in the SGML pages, how extensive should they be? I already took it on myself to remove Gene Selkov's snailmail address, but do we even want email addresses there? A lot of them are probably dead, and the ones that aren't are causing their owners to get extra

Re: [HACKERS] [DOCS] "distributed checkpoint"

David Fetter wrote: balanced gradual extended (I see you mention time-extended but wouldn't time be implicit based on the actual docs and thus we only need extended?) How about "smoothed?" perhaps we should call it Jacob checkpointing, then. cheers andrew -

Re: [HACKERS] [DOCS] "distributed checkpoint"

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 07:19:44PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:44:49 -0500 > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Am I the only one who finds the phrase "distribute

Re: [HACKERS] [DOCS] "distributed checkpoint"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:44:49 -0500 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Am I the only one who finds the phrase "distributed checkpointing" > > a bit awkward? Would it be better if we used "time-distribu

Re: [DOCS] "distributed checkpoint"

Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am I the only one who finds the phrase "distributed checkpointing" a bit > awkward? Would it be better if we used "time-distributed checkpointing" > instead? Yeah, "distributed" has a bunch of connotations that are wrong for this purpose. I spent a bi

[DOCS] "distributed checkpoint"

Am I the only one who finds the phrase "distributed checkpointing" a bit awkward? Would it be better if we used "time-distributed checkpointing" instead? The phrase is used in the release notes, but it's not used anywhere in the main docs. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com

Re: [DOCS] lastval() not included in table

Jeff Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The lastval() function appears to be missing from table 9-38. Fixed in CVS HEAD --- thanks for reporting it. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our li

Re: [DOCS] Uniform policy for author credits in contrib module documentation?

On Dec 5, 2007 8:58 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If we do want to keep credits in the SGML pages, how extensive should > they be? ... > I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other, except that I think > we should have a uniform policy for all the contrib modules. One of the

Re: [DOCS] Re: [HACKERS] Uniform policy for author credits in contrib module documentation?

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:46:51PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > >As of CVS HEAD, some of the contrib module documentation pages have > >extensive credit screeds, eg > >http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/cube.html > >and some just have the author's name, with or wit