Re: Possible inaccurate description of wal_compression in docs

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
Cc: Jingtang Zhang <mrdrivingduck(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Possible inaccurate description of wal_compression in docs
Date: 2025-08-12 04:41:40
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 06:59:55PM +0300, Andrey Borodin wrote:
> FPWs are used here and there in a lot of places, like "FPI for
> hint". And indexes are build using FPI for many years, it did not
> start with 17...
> This list is not exhaustive in any case, so I agree that formulation
> should not be very strict.

Perhaps, yes, the formulation used in this paragraph could be a bit
more evasive. What we do not want is to keep a wording that would
require more maintenance each time the internals of the backend are
changed, so adding an extra "like" may be OK.

Do any of you have a specific wording in mind?
--
Michael

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