> I've searched the documentation and the mailing lists archive but I'm
> unable to find info on setting checkpoints and performing roll-forward
> operations with the transaction log. I'd appreciate it if
> someone could point me to the right docs.
WAL stuff is not documented yet.
Anyway you shouldn't worry about checkpoints - postmaster will create
one each 300 sec (by default, you can change checkpoint_timeout option).
Vadim