> How does it know what a crashed PostgreSQL database look like?
> 
> Besides, active transactions need to be *rolled back*, not written
> ahead, since half the data hasn't been sent from the computer yet.

There's a section of the docs dealing with this:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/wal.html

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to 
> litigate.

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