Greetings,
* Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org) wrote:
> Patch 10 uses the term "WAL-skip relations". What does that mean? Is
> it "relations that are not WAL-logged"? I suppose we already have a
> term for this; I'm not sure it's a good idea to invent a different term
> that is only used in this new place.
This is discussed in src/backend/access/transam/README, specifically the
section that talks about Skipping WAL for New RelFileNode. Basically,
it's the 'wal_level=minimal' optimization which allows WAL to be
skipped.
Thanks!
Stephen
