Re: [GENERAL] Re: What's WAL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From James Thompson
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Re: What's WAL
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.10.9910221103410.1757-100000@hobbes.math.ksu.edu
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Re: What's WAL  (Jimmie Houchin <jhouchin@texoma.net>)
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> Thanks for the opportunity for fun off topic banter. Now back to the
> show. I'll keep an eye on the Illuminati and maybe one of them will slip
> and reveal the meaning of the Great WAL of PostgreSQL. :)
>

I pulled this from dejanews as the postgresql list archieve search is
down.  I have no idea who said it......

WAL is Write Ahead Log, transaction logging. This will reduce # of fsyncs
(among other things) Postgres has to perform now.

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