Re: pgsql: Disable full_page_writes, because turning it

Added to TODO:

* Re-enable the GUC full_page_writes in 8.2 when reliability issues have
been addressed

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Log Message:
> -----------
> Disable full_page_writes, because turning it off risks causing crash-recovery
> failures even when the hardware and OS did nothing wrong. Per recent analysis
> of a problem report from Alex Bahdushka.
>
> For the moment I've just diked out the test of the parameter, rather than
> removing the GUC infrastructure and documentation, in case we conclude that
> there's something salvageable there. There seems no chance of it being
> resurrected in the 8.1 branch though.
>
> Tags:
> ----
> REL8_1_STABLE
>
> Modified Files:
> --------------
> pgsql/doc/src/sgml:
> config.sgml (r1.36.2.2 -> r1.36.2.3)
> (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml.diff?r1=1.36.2.2&r2=1.36.2.3)
> pgsql/src/backend/access/transam:
> xlog.c (r1.222.2.2 -> r1.222.2.3)
> (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c.diff?r1=1.222.2.2&r2=1.222.2.3)
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