Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Bgwriter behavior

2005-01-01 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 06:20, Bruce Momjian wrote: > This change isn't going to make it for RC3, and it probably not > something we want to rush. OK. Thank you. > I think there are a few issues involved: > > o everyone agrees the current meaning of bgwriter_percent is > useless (p

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Bgwriter behavior

2005-01-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Simon Riggs wrote: > On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 06:20, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > This change isn't going to make it for RC3, and it probably not > > something we want to rush. > > OK. Thank you. > > > I think there are a few issues involved: > > > > o everyone agrees the current meaning of bgwrit

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Bgwriter behavior

2005-01-01 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 17:01, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > > > Well, I think we're saying: its not in 8.0 now, and we take our time to > > consider patches for 8.1 and accept the situation that the parameter > > names/meaning will change in next release. > > I have no problem doing

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Bgwriter behavior

2005-01-01 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > o everyone agrees the current meaning of bgwriter_percent is > useless (percent of dirty buffers) Oh? It's not useless by any means; it's a perfectly reasonable and useful definition that happens to be expensive to implement. One of the questions that is

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Bgwriter behavior

2005-01-01 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 17:47, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 17:01, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Simon Riggs wrote: > > > > > Well, I think we're saying: its not in 8.0 now, and we take our time to > > > consider patches for 8.1 and accept the situation that the parameter > > > names/meani

[PATCHES] psql session log

2005-01-01 Thread lsunley
Here is a patch that allows psql to create a session log NOTE - the patch to the makefile is to keep it from constantly building psql.exe as the target "psql" all by itself is never created as the output executable on OS/2 and Windows is psql.exe. The patch provides for a new command line argum

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Bgwriter behavior

2005-01-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > o everyone agrees the current meaning of bgwriter_percent is > >useless (percent of dirty buffers) > > Oh? > > It's not useless by any means; it's a perfectly reasonable and useful > definition that happens to be expensive to implement. O