Re: Wal logs continued...

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Barry Lind <barry(at)xythos(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Wal logs continued...
Date: 2001-05-15 13:57:32
Message-ID: 200105151357.f4FDvWU01569@candle.pha.pa.us
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Docs updated.

> Barry Lind <barry(at)xythos(dot)com> writes:
> > Given what you say below, I think there is a documentation bug then. In
> > Section 9.3 of the Administrators Guide it says:
>
> > "After a checkpoint has been made, any log segments written before the
> > redo record are removed, so checkpoints are used to free disk space
> > in the WAL directory."
>
> Hmm, it should have said "undo record" ...
>
> regards, tom lane
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