> WAL was a difficult feature to add to 7.1.  Currently, it is only used
> as a performance benefit, but I expect it will be used in the future to

Not only. Did you forget about btree stability?
Partial disk writes?

> add new features like:
> 
> 	Advanced Replication

I'm for sure not fan of this.

> 	Point-in-time recovery
> 	Row reuse without vacuum

Yes, it will help to remove uncommitted rows.

And don't forget about SAVEPOINTs.

Vadim

Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:47:45 -0700
"Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>
RE: WAL feature
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Mikheev, Vadim wrote:

> > 	Row reuse without vacuum
>
> Yes, it will help to remove uncommitted rows.

Same question as I asked Bruce ... how? :)  I wasn't trying to be
fascisious(sp?) when I asked, I didn't realize the two were connected and
am curious as to how :)


Fri, 27 Apr 2001 20:12:48 -0300 (ADT)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
RE: WAL feature