Re: Added documentation about caching, reliability

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Well, now the chapter is about WAL and reliability, so I thought
> > reliability hit both topics. Also, maybe we should consider moving
> > this FAQ item into the docs:
> >
> > <H3><A name="3.7">3.7</A>) What computer hardware should I
> > use?</H3>
>
> Hardware choice and configuration are important topics, but neither of
> these are strongly tied to either WAL or Reliability. Reliability is
> the property (not a "feature") of a system to do what you meant for it
> to do. Certainly WAL contributes to that by increasing tolerance
> against hardware failures, but it still seems to be a rather
> far-fetched connection to pair these two.
>
> I could see hardware issues being discussed in chapter 16, since we
> already have operating system and kernel configuration there, and it's
> the chapter a user will read when setting up a server system.
>
> I was never all that happy with the WAL chapter, since, as you say, it
> doesn't seem to be a first-class user-level feature. I'd be happy to
> integrate it into another chapter, but I'm not sure where.

Sure, I am looking for suggestions. My relabeling at least fixes that,
but feel free to move things around and relabel them.

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