From 3848532c7976f28bba546024afb7f94e8de1ece0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 04:06:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update wording: < Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write the > Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write 877c877 < * Turn off after-change writes if fsync is disabled > * Turn off full page writes if fsync is disabled --- doc/TODO | 6 +++--- doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO index 4a7de3fac4..226965c848 100644 --- a/doc/TODO +++ b/doc/TODO @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ PostgreSQL TODO List ==================== Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) -Last updated: Sat Jul 2 10:30:35 EDT 2005 +Last updated: Mon Jul 4 00:06:35 EDT 2005 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html. @@ -867,14 +867,14 @@ Write-Ahead Log * Eliminate need to write full pages to WAL before page modification [wal] - Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write the + Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write full page images to WAL before they are modified so we can correct any 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 (?) -* Turn off after-change writes if fsync is disabled +* Turn off full page writes if fsync is disabled If fsync is off, there is no purpose in writing full pages to WAL diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html index 5f21056075..986f177fd0 100644 --- a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html +++ b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#FF0000" vlink="#A00000" alink="#0000FF"> <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: Sat Jul 2 10:30:35 EDT 2005 +Last updated: Mon Jul 4 00:06:35 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>. @@ -798,14 +798,14 @@ first. <ul> <li>Eliminate need to write full pages to WAL before page modification [<a href="http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgtodo?wal">wal</a>] -<p> Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write the +<p> Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write full page images to WAL before they are modified so we can correct any partial page writes during recovery. These pages can also be eliminated from point-in-time archive files. </p> </li><li>Reduce WAL traffic so only modified values are written rather than entire rows (?) - </li><li>Turn off after-change writes if fsync is disabled + </li><li>Turn off full page writes if fsync is disabled <p> If fsync is off, there is no purpose in writing full pages to WAL </p> </li><li>Add WAL index reliability improvement to non-btree indexes -- 2.49.0