Re: WAL Question

Harry Yau writes:

> tell me about the flow of the process to recover from WAL: 1. reads
> pg_control, 2. reads checkpoint record, 3. reads redo record, and then
> finally 4. REDO operation. I wonder do we need to run all the above
> procedures manually, after a crash?? or They will REALLY be
> automatically run when re-start the postgres after a crash?? It sounds
> like a miracle for me!!

Everything is automatic.

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