Francis Reader <freader@imerge.co.uk> writes:
> To conclude, if you have many clients whose backends have infrequent write
> accesses and then long periods of inactivity, but whose connection to the
> database is left open, and other backends that are active which march on and
> create new wal files, many "(deleted)" wal can be created which are ONLY
> cleared up, with the closing of the backend or when another write access on
> the db from that backend.
And so what? I don't see any bad effects here (especially not in the
context of 7.2's renaming).
> As another point, is there a way to TURN OFF WAL completely????
No.
regards, tom lane