RE: WAL feature - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mikheev, Vadim
Subject RE: WAL feature
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Msg-id 8F4C99C66D04D4118F580090272A7A234D33DF@sectorbase1.sectorbase.com
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In response to WAL feature  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses RE: WAL feature  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
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> WAL was a difficult feature to add to 7.1.  Currently, it is only used
> as a performance benefit, but I expect it will be used in the future to

Not only. Did you forget about btree stability?
Partial disk writes?

> add new features like:
> 
>     Advanced Replication

I'm for sure not fan of this.

>     Point-in-time recovery
>     Row reuse without vacuum

Yes, it will help to remove uncommitted rows.

And don't forget about SAVEPOINTs.

Vadim


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