J. R. Nield wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 02:25, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > > (2) At least in the current CVS version, the code to do a 'CHECKPOINT'
> > > after creating a table has been #ifdef'ed out. Why is that?
> >
> > That is not after creation of a table, but while creating it, which is
> > not necessary any more since Tom has fix the growth of WAL logs.
> >
>
> Tatsou:
>
> Could you or Tom give me some background on what this change was about?
> Is this something recent, or would it have been in CVS about a month
> ago?
>
> I can't see any reason to force a checkpoint after CREATE TABLE, but it
> would be interesting to know why it was done before.
7.1.0 had a problem with WAL file growth. This was fixed in 7.1.2 or
7.1.3 so checkpoint is not required anymore.
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