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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/config.sgml10
-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c5
-rw-r--r--src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES4
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index 6b4db09605b..0259e4c31f0 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.136 2007/08/04 01:26:53 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.137 2007/08/13 19:27:11 tgl Exp $ -->
<chapter Id="runtime-config">
<title>Server Configuration</title>
@@ -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 09cd8ca4481..0f2b479bf97 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
* Written by Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>.
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c,v 1.411 2007/08/08 16:00:46 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c,v 1.412 2007/08/13 19:27:11 tgl Exp $
*
*--------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -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 b1ef4931e84..2ebd6e39080 100644
--- 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