RE: Storage Manager (was postgres 7.2 features.) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

> Also, does WAL offer instantaneous crash recovery like no-overwrite?

No, but it offers < 1 fsync per commit, instead of fsyncing every
changed table/index...
+ rollback changes of aborted transactions.

And, btw, WAL can live with non-overwriting smgr without problem -
why do you oppose them?

Also, try to power off while inserts into table with indices -
indices will be broken...

Vadim