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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
-Last updated: Fri Aug 20 16:07:04 EDT 2004
+Last updated: Mon Aug 23 17:56:39 EDT 2004
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Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write the
full page images to WAL before they are modified so we can correct any
- partial page writes during recovery.
+ partial page writes during recovery. These pages can also be
+ eliminated from point-in-time archive files.
* Reduce WAL traffic so only modified values are written rather than
entire rows (?)