What does "[backends] should seldom or never need to wait for a write to occur" mean?

2020-10-29 Thread PG Doc comments form
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/runtime-config-resource.html Description: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/runtime-config-resource.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-RESOURCE-BACKGROUND-WRITER says: "There is a separate server proc

COPY statement: no list of the allowed values for "format_name"

2020-10-29 Thread PG Doc comments form
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/sql-copy.html Description: Look at the account of the COPY statement, here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/sql-copy.html and see this: « [ [ WITH ] ( option [, ...] ) ] » It goes o

Re: COPY statement: no list of the allowed values for "format_name"

2020-10-29 Thread David G. Johnston
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 3:24 PM PG Doc comments form wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/sql-copy.html > Description: > > Look at the account of the COPY statement, here: > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/s

Re: What does "[backends] should seldom or never need to wait for a write to occur" mean?

2020-10-29 Thread David G. Johnston
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 3:24 PM PG Doc comments form wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/runtime-config-resource.html > Description: > > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/runtime-config-resource.html#RUNTIME-

Re: COPY statement: no list of the allowed values for "format_name"

2020-10-29 Thread David G. Johnston
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 5:13 PM Bryn Llewellyn wrote: > « > Selects the data format to be read or written: text, csv (Comma Separated > Values), or binary. The default is text. > » > > would be improved if it were spelled more explicitly: > > « > Selects the data format to be read or written. Th