> On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > This will be in 7.1 as WAL (write-ahead log).
>
> What does this exactly mean? Will this WAL be an equivalent of the logical
> log of Informix? Where will they be kept? In the database, as a file, or as
> either?
> Looks pretty good. All that is needed after this is a good blob
> implementation (for text and binary data).
Yes, I think it will be similar to Informix logical logs. Not sure
where they will be kept, but assume you can put it anywhere you want.
Not sure if tape logging will be enabled. It will be written as a file.
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