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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ TODO list for PostgreSQL Bracketed items "[]" have more detail. Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) -Last updated: Thu Aug 12 22:47:54 EDT 2004 +Last updated: Fri Aug 13 21:30:49 EDT 2004 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at the PostgreSQL web site, http://www.PostgreSQL.org. @@ -715,6 +715,15 @@ Write-Ahead Log rotation to fsync again. One idea is to write the WAL to different offsets that might reduce the rotational delay. +* Allow buffered WAL writes and fsync + + Instead of guaranteeing recovery of all committed transactions, this + would provide improved performance by delaying WAL writes and fsync + so an abrupt operating system restart might lose a few seconds of + committed transactions but still be consistent. We could perhaps + remove the 'fsync' parameter (which results in an an inconsistent + database) in favor of this capability. + Optimizer / Executor ==================== |