Re: pgsql: Improve wording.

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:32:51AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:48:31PM +0000, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > > Log Message:
> > > > -----------
> > > > Improve wording.
> >
> > I agree that the parenthised phrase should be removed.
> >
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml?r1=1.387&r2=1.391
>
> That's fine with me. It's just that I figured that if we're going to
> add something, we should at least add something factually accurate.
>
> > I think your proposed wording is removed enough from what the
> > complainant was saying that it is not worth to stick it in. The point
> > here is, to what extent do we want to spoon-feed careless sysadmins?
>
> Not sure what the complaint was. The only useful advice I can think of
> is that before turning it on you need to makes sure you have lots of
> swap. For the rest, I think the wording was fine as it was.

We are back to the old wording, but a link to an OOM article was added:

http://lwn.net/Articles/104179/

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