Re: Fix an old description in high-availability.sgml

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Masahiko Sawada <masahiko(dot)sawada(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fix an old description in high-availability.sgml
Date: 2020-08-14 08:15:20
Message-ID: 20200814081520.GA25950@paquier.xyz
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On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 04:53:54PM +0900, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> The following sentence in high-availability.sgml is not true:
>
> The background writer is active during recovery and will perform
> restartpoints (similar to checkpoints on the primary) and normal block
> cleaning activities.
>
> I think this is an oversight of the commit 806a2ae in 2011; the
> checkpointer process started to be responsible for creating
> checkpoints.

Good catch it is. Your phrasing looks good to me.
--
Michael

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