On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 06:39:57AM -0800, Don Baccus wrote:
>
> Probably the best answer to the "what does WAL get us, if it doesn't
> get us full recoverability" questions is to simply say "it's a
> prerequisite to getting full recoverability, PG 7.1 sets the foundation
> and later work will get us there".
Not to quibble, but for most of us, the answer to Don's question is:
"It gives a ~20x speedup over 7.0." That's pretty valuable to some of us.
If it turns out to be useful for other stuff, that's gravy.
Nathan Myers
ncm@zembu.com