pgsql: Improve WAL reliability documentation, and add more cross-refere - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Improve WAL reliability documentation, and add more cross-references to it.

In particular, we are now more explicit about the fact that you may need
wal_sync_method=fsync_writethrough for crash-safety on some platforms,
including MaxOS X.  There's also now an explicit caution against assuming
that the default setting of wal_sync_method is either crash-safe or best
for performance.

Branch
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REL8_3_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=9cb280213949d7b42cd9260a5344e952245644b5

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/config.sgml |    6 +++++-
doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml    |   11 ++++++++---
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)