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Re: [GENERAL] Re: What's WAL

James Thompson <jamest@math.ksu.edu>

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From: James Thompson <jamest@math.ksu.edu>
To: Jimmie Houchin <jhouchin@texoma.net>
Cc: Christian Rudow <Christian.Rudow@thinx.ch>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general@hub.org>
Date: 1999-10-22T16:05:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> 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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