* Martin A. Marques <martin@math.unl.edu.ar> [001011 19:10] wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Asidha Luhwidyanto wrote:
> > What;s the new in Postgresql 7.1 ?
>
> TOAST and WAL!!!!
>
> I think these are big changes that will make me think about postgresql as a
> big time competitor against the big commercial database engines.
>
> WAL is a backup system.
afaik WAL means the end of the dreaded 'vacuum', it allows the system
to reuse free space without explicitly scanning the datafiles, it should
also do it in a manner that still allows transactional dumping.
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