Re: WAL & SHM principles

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > The only problem is that we would no longer have control over which
> > pages made it to disk.  The OS would perhaps write pages as we modified
> > them.  Not sure how important that is.
> 
> Unfortunately, this alone is a *fatal* objection.  See nearby
> discussions about WAL behavior: we must be able to control the relative
> timing of WAL write/flush and data page writes.

Bummer.

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