diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO index 4a7de3fac4b..226965c848c 100644 --- a/doc/TODO +++ b/doc/TODO @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ PostgreSQL TODO List ==================== Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) -Last updated: Sat Jul 2 10:30:35 EDT 2005 +Last updated: Mon Jul 4 00:06:35 EDT 2005 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html. @@ -867,14 +867,14 @@ Write-Ahead Log * Eliminate need to write full pages to WAL before page modification [wal] - Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write the + Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write full page images to WAL before they are modified so we can correct any partial page writes during recovery. These pages can also be eliminated from point-in-time archive files. * Reduce WAL traffic so only modified values are written rather than entire rows (?) -* Turn off after-change writes if fsync is disabled +* Turn off full page writes if fsync is disabled If fsync is off, there is no purpose in writing full pages to WAL diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html index 5f210560750..986f177fd04 100644 --- a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html +++ b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
-Last updated: Sat Jul 2 10:30:35 EDT 2005
+Last updated: Mon Jul 4 00:06:35 EDT 2005
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
@@ -798,14 +798,14 @@ first.
Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write the +
Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write full page images to WAL before they are modified so we can correct any partial page writes during recovery. These pages can also be eliminated from point-in-time archive files.
If fsync is off, there is no purpose in writing full pages to WAL