> Thanks for the opportunity for fun off topic banter. Now back to the
> show. I'll keep an eye on the Illuminati and maybe one of them will slip
> and reveal the meaning of the Great WAL of PostgreSQL. :)
>
I pulled this from dejanews as the postgresql list archieve search is
down. I have no idea who said it......
WAL is Write Ahead Log, transaction logging. This will reduce # of fsyncs
(among other things) Postgres has to perform now.
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