Re: pgsql: In documentaiton, clarify which commands have reduced WAL volume - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pgsql: In documentaiton, clarify which commands have reduced WAL volume
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Msg-id 201108041903.p74J3UY23877@momjian.us
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In response to Re: pgsql: In documentaiton, clarify which commands have reduced WAL volume  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of jue ago 04 12:07:15 -0400 2011:
> > In documentaiton, clarify which commands have reduced WAL volume for
> > wal_level = minimum.
>
> Sorry that I misled you -- my tags were just an example, I wasn't trying
> to imply that the markup was correct.  (A quick make check would have
> told you as much).

I see.  :-(  Fixed with the attached patch and backpatched.  I added the
<command> tag as well.  It does seems <simplelist> is best here.

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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
new file mode 100644
index b774e2a..33db25f
*** a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
*************** SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF;
*** 1456,1466 ****
          operations much faster (see <xref linkend="populate-pitr">).
          Operations in which this optimization can be applied include:
          <simplelist>
!          <item>CREATE TABLE AS</item>
!          <item>CREATE INDEX</item>
!          <item>CLUSTER</item>
!          <item>COPY into tables that were created or truncated in the same
!          transaction
          </simplelist>
          But minimal WAL does not contain
          enough information to reconstruct the data from a base backup and the
--- 1456,1466 ----
          operations much faster (see <xref linkend="populate-pitr">).
          Operations in which this optimization can be applied include:
          <simplelist>
!          <member><command>CREATE TABLE AS</></member>
!          <member><command>CREATE INDEX</></member>
!          <member><command>CLUSTER</></member>
!          <member><command>COPY</> into tables that were created or truncated in the same
!          transaction</member>
          </simplelist>
          But minimal WAL does not contain
          enough information to reconstruct the data from a base backup and the

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