Re: [HACKERS] TODO item

At 11:31 AM 2/7/00 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>I hate to see you give up on this.  

>Don't tell me we fsync on every buffer write, and not just at
>transaction commit?  That is terrible.

Won't we have many more options in this area, i.e. increasing performance
while maintaining on-disk data integrity, once WAL is implemented?

snapshot+WAL = your database so in theory -F on tables and 
the transaction log would be safe as long as you have a snapshot and
as long as the WAL is being fsync'd and you have the disk space to
hold the WAL until you update your snapshot, no?



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