On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 4:57 AM, 高健 <luckyjack...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But why "writes the entire content of each disk page to WAL "?
>

The documentation states that: "The row-level change data normally
stored in WAL will not be enough to completely restore such a page
during post-crash recovery.". I guess that a mixed page (i.e., a page
that contains old and new data) cannot be safely recovered with
deltas, so you need to have a "clean" page image to which start
recovery.

Someone with more internal knowledge can comment on this.

Luca


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