PostgreSQL TODO List
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
-Last updated: Thu Jul 7 11:18:18 EDT 2005
+Last updated: Thu Jul 7 12:01:59 EDT 2005
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
the page is modified in the buffer cache
This allows most full page writes to happen in the background
- writer.
+ writer. It might cause problems for applying WAL on recovery
+ into a partially-written page, but later the full page will be
+ replaced from WAL.
* Reduce WAL traffic so only modified values are written rather than
entire rows?
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<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>
<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</a>)<br/>
-Last updated: Thu Jul 7 11:18:18 EDT 2005
+Last updated: Thu Jul 7 12:01:59 EDT 2005
</p>
<p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/>
<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>.
</li><li>Write full pages during file system write and not when
the page is modified in the buffer cache
<p> This allows most full page writes to happen in the background
- writer.
+ writer. It might cause problems for applying WAL on recovery
+ into a partially-written page, but later the full page will be
+ replaced from WAL.
</p>
</li></ul>
</li><li>Reduce WAL traffic so only modified values are written rather than