Re: Add A Glossary

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 3:58 PM Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
> > +      A process that writes dirty pages and <glossterm>WAL
> > +      Records</glossterm> to the file system and creates a special
>
> Does the chckpointer actually write WAL ?

Yes.

> An FK doesn't require the values in its table to be unique, right ?

I believe it does require that the values are unique.

> I think there's some confusion.  Constraints are not objects, right ?

I think constraints are definitely objects. They have names and you
can, for example, COMMENT on them.

> Do we use shared_buffers for WAL ?

No.

(I have not reviewed the patch; these are just a few comments on your comments.)

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