Re: What is WAL used for?

> WAL with ext3's data journaling is quite unnecessary because the WAL
> sort of IS the database's journal.

I believe you are mistaken. ext3 data journalling only does the
filesystem. It has no concept of the structure of the database itself.
WAL is still necessary to keep consistency on the table itself.

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