From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:01:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Pre-page write additions.
X-Git-Tag: REL7_2_BETA5~200
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=20f94e16a969e1b45a3724c479a86da436c45d4c;p=postgresql

Pre-page write additions.
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diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index fcc47a316b..bd2618bed7 100644
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 TODO list for PostgreSQL
 ========================
-Last updated:		Sat Dec 15 12:28:47 EST 2001
+Last updated:		Thu Dec 20 17:01:06 EST 2001
 
 Current maintainer:	Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
 
@@ -376,7 +376,10 @@ MISCELLANEOUS
 * Allow logging of query durations
 * Add hash for evaluating GROUP BY aggregates
 * -Read pg_hba.conf only on postmaster startup or SIGHUP (Bruce)
-* Make secondary WAL page write()'s write only modified data to kernel
+* Have pre-page WAL write()'s write only modified data to kernel
+* Reduce number of pre-page WAL writes; they exist only to gaurd against
+  partial page writes
+* Turn off pre-page writes if fsync is disabled (?)
 * -Improve spinlock code [performance] (Tom)
 * Do listen() in postmaster and accept() in pre-forked backend
 * Have pre-forked backend pre-connect to last requested database or pass