flushed to disk after a configurable number of bytes. Otherwise, these
pages may be kept in the OS's page cache, inducing a stall when
<literal>fsync</literal> is issued at the end of a checkpoint. This setting will
- often help to reduce transaction latency, but it also can an adverse effect
- on performance; particularly for workloads that are bigger than
+ often help to reduce transaction latency, but it also can have an adverse
+ effect on performance; particularly for workloads that are bigger than
<xref linkend="guc-shared-buffers"/>, but smaller than the OS's page cache.
</para>