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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml index 06198bd6e1c..00f0c459ace 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml,v 1.1 2001/01/24 23:15:19 petere Exp $ --> +<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml,v 1.2 2001/02/18 04:50:43 tgl Exp $ --> <chapter id="wal"> <title>Write-Ahead Logging (<acronym>WAL</acronym>)</title> @@ -290,15 +290,15 @@ </para> <para> - The <varname>COMMIT_DELAY</varname> parameter defines for how long - the backend will be forced to sleep after writing a commit record - to the log with <function>LogInsert</function> call but before + The <varname>COMMIT_DELAY</varname> parameter defines for how many + microseconds the backend will sleep after writing a commit + record to the log with <function>LogInsert</function> but before performing a <function>LogFlush</function>. This delay allows other backends to add their commit records to the log so as to have all of them flushed with a single log sync. Unfortunately, this mechanism is not fully implemented at release 7.1, so there is at - present no point in changing this parameter from its default value - of 5 microseconds. + present usually no benefit to be gained from increasing this parameter + above its default value of zero. </para> </sect1> </chapter> |