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

Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>

Commit: 36f4b4e96b810ee4e8b72cc7d64d8ee6060f4986
Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-10-07T16:22:08Z
Releases: 8.4.6
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.

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