> Ok, this has peaked my interest in learning exactly what WAL 
> is and what it does... I don't see any in-depth explanation
> of WAL on the postgresql.org site, can someone point me to
> some documentation? (if any exists, that is).

WAL (Write Ahead Log) is standard technique described in,
I think, any book about transaction processing.

Vadim

Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:50:26 -0800 
"Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>
RE: WAL information