Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can someone explain exactly what the problem being defeated by writing whole
> pages to the WAL log?

Partial writes.  Without the full-page image, we do not have enough
information in WAL to reconstruct the correct page contents.

>> A further optimization would be to write the backup pages to the same 8k
>> file over and over again rather than adding I/O to pg_xlog WAL files.

How does that work, and why is it a win compared to doing the same
amount of I/O to WAL?

                        regards, tom lane

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