Re: [HACKERS] WAL & SHM principles

[Tom Lane]

Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The only problem is that we would no longer have control over which
> pages made it to disk.  The OS would perhaps write pages as we modified
> them.  Not sure how important that is.

Unfortunately, this alone is a *fatal* objection.  See nearby
discussions about WAL behavior: we must be able to control the relative
timing of WAL write/flush and data page writes.

                        regards, tom lane

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