On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> But having said that, I wonder whether we need a full-page image for
> a WAL-logged action that is known to involve only setting a single bit
> and updating LSN. Would omitting the FPI be any more risky than what
> happens now (ie, the page does get written back to disk at some point,
> without any image from which it can be rewritten if the write fails...)
That's pretty much exactly what Heikki proposed 35 minutes ago, and
you objected 6 minutes later. I still think it might work.
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