Re: Latch for the WAL writer - further reducing idle wake-ups.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Latch for the WAL writer - further reducing idle wake-ups.
Date: 2012-05-07 18:44:24
Message-ID: 9917.1336416264@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 7 May 2012 18:09, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I also notice that the separate-checkpointer patch failed to rename
>> assorted things like BgWriterCommLock, BgWriterRequest,
>> BgWriterShmemStruct, which are all 100% inappropriately named now.
>> And it still contains various obsolete comments referring to itself
>> as the background writer. Will see about cleaning that up.

> For want of a better name, keeping them the same seemed best.

I was just thinking s/BgWriter/Checkpointer/, do you think that's too
long?

regards, tom lane

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