TEMPORARILY make synchronous_commit default to OFF, so that we can get more

thorough testing of async-commit mode from the buildfarm.  This patch MUST
get reverted before 8.3 release!

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index f635f2b56614ba4fa8296220e5b06b31198bb838..ceafcf566dfa7a9abcdeeaebc76c31816a0c6381 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -1352,6 +1352,14 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF;
         commits.  It is therefore possible, and useful, to have some
         transactions commit synchronously and others asynchronously.
        </para>
+
+<!-- this note should go away before release!! -->
+<note>
+       <para>
+        For testing purposes, <varname>synchronous_commit</varname> will
+        default to <literal>off</> until 8.3 release approaches.
+       </para>
+</note>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
index cd70928ce74ff45b93faaca6448e6d9f3819b3b3..c3d996e557dabea57e605628d98b948a866db674 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
@@ -560,7 +560,8 @@ static struct config_bool ConfigureNamesBool[] =
                        NULL
                },
                &XactSyncCommit,
-               true, NULL, NULL
+               /* XXX TEMPORARY FOR TESTING: sync commit should default to TRUE! */
+               false, NULL, NULL
        },
        {
                {"zero_damaged_pages", PGC_SUSET, DEVELOPER_OPTIONS,

diff --git a/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES b/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
index b1ef4931e8436d0d79727ac30d05d15c41842f74..2ebd6e39080d18c3ea4b774e3f20dd78c1066520 100644 (file)
--- a/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
+++ b/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 For All Releases (major, minor, beta, RC)
 ================
 
+*** SPECIAL FOR 8.3: don't forget to revert patch of 2007-08-13 that
+made synchronous_commit default to OFF.  Affects this file, guc.c, and
+config.sgml.
+
 * Release version number changes
        o doc/bug.template
        o bump Win32 interface version numbers