Re: Re: Doc patch making firm recommendation for setting the value of commit_delay

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 05:47:30PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> writes:
> > I'm marking this patch Ready for Committer, qualified with a recommendation to
> > adopt only the wal.sgml changes.
>
> I've committed this along with some further wordsmithing. I kept
> Peter's change to pg_test_fsync's default -s value; I've always felt
> that 2 seconds was laughably small. It might be all right for very
> quick-and-dirty tests, but as a default value, it seems like a poor
> choice, because it's at the very bottom of the credible range of
> choices.

Agreed, 2 seconds was at the bottom. The old behavior was very slow so
I went low. Now that we are using it, 5 secs makes sense.

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