Re: New to PostGre SQL asking about write-ahead-log (WAL)

On 09/17/2014 03:50 AM, Mingzhe Li wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to PostGre SQL and want to ask some questions. In my database
> class, we plan to work on a class project based on WAL. Since we are not
> familiar with WAL, we don't know what's a good start point. Could anyone
> point me to any documentation mentioning about WAL in PostGre SQL? It
> will be very helpful if anyone could point me to the file which includes
> the core of WAL implementation. Any advice along this line is very welcome. 

This appears to be a re-post of
http://stackoverflow.com/q/25876287/398670 to -hackers.

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