Re: [HACKERS] Regarding redo/undo files.

2004-08-10 Thread Tom Lane
=?iso-8859-1?q?Mamta=20Singh?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, give me some idea as to what do we > need to change to implement undo-file. It's very unlikely that we'll ever implement WAL-based UNDO. No one has given any convincing reason to think it's a good idea. re

Re: [HACKERS] Regarding redo/undo files.

2004-08-07 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 05:53:02AM +0100, Mamta Singh wrote: >> I went thru the site >> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/wal-benefits-later.html > I see that most of this document is obsolete. Yeah, I was planning to remove that section or at

Re: [HACKERS] Regarding redo/undo files.

2004-08-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 05:53:02AM +0100, Mamta Singh wrote: > I went thru the site > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/wal-benefits-later.html I see that most of this document is obsolete. It mentions: 1. with UNDO it will be possible to remove pg_clog. (already possible, another me

[HACKERS] Regarding redo/undo files.

2004-08-05 Thread Mamta Singh
Hi, I went thru the site http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/wal-benefits-later.html Undo operation is not implemented. and information of the status regarding the transaction is stored in the permanent file pg_clog. But I have not been able to see the format of the file, as this file is