PostgreSQL TODO List

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Current maintainer:Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)

Last updated:Thu Jul 711:18:18 EDT 2005

Last updated:Thu Jul 712:01:59 EDT 2005

The most recent version of this document can be viewed at

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.

the page is modified in the buffer cache

This allows most full page writes to happen in the background

writer.

writer. It might cause problems for applying WAL on recovery

into a partially-written page, but later the full page will be

replaced from WAL.

* Reduce WAL traffic so only modified values are written rather than

entire rows?

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<h1><aname="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>

<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<ahref="mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</a>)<br/>

Last updated: Thu Jul 711:18:18 EDT 2005

Last updated: Thu Jul 712:01:59 EDT 2005

<p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/>

<ahref="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>.

</li><li>Write full pages during file system write and not when

the page is modified in the buffer cache

<p> This allows most full page writes to happen in the background

writer.

writer. It might cause problems for applying WAL on recovery

into a partially-written page, but later the full page will be

replaced from WAL.

</li><li>Reduce WAL traffic so only modified values are written rather than