"Vadim Mikheev" <vmikheev@sectorbase.com> writes:
> I feel that the fact that
>
> WAL can't help in the event of disk errors
>
> is often overlooked.
This is true in general. But, nevertheless, WAL can be written to
protect against predictable disk errors, when possible. Failing to
write a couple of disk blocks when the system crashes is a reasonably
predictable disk error. WAL should ideally be written to work
correctly in that situation.
Ian
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