Update:

< 	   writer.
> 	   writer.  It might cause problems for applying WAL on recovery
> 	   into a partially-written page, but later the full page will be
> 	   replaced from WAL.

diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index a9691bf7a702269931ef1b4bc8f8df46d774fe7a..57d9520ef80b146056db561ca0abfbbc6ef4792f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 PostgreSQL TODO List
 ====================
 Current maintainer:    Bruce Momjian ([email protected])
-Last updated:      Thu Jul  7 11:18:18 EDT 2005
+Last updated:      Thu Jul  7 12:01:59 EDT 2005
 
 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
@@ -943,7 +943,9 @@ Write-Ahead Log
       the page is modified in the buffer cache
 
       This allows most full page writes to happen in the background
-      writer.
+      writer.  It might cause problems for applying WAL on recovery
+      into a partially-written page, but later the full page will be
+      replaced from WAL.
 
 * Reduce WAL traffic so only modified values are written rather than
   entire rows?

diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
index 6b2b48be119160fb130ef322c749eb5a1b520711..cdaf857978b5155924f2b2f29b80e87cd7646b6f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
+++ b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 PostgreSQL TODO List
 Current maintainer:     Bruce Momjian ([email protected])
-Last updated:           Thu Jul  7 11:18:18 EDT 2005
+Last updated:           Thu Jul  7 12:01:59 EDT 2005
 
 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
@@ -851,7 +851,9 @@ first.
     Write full pages during file system write and not when
            the page is modified in the buffer cache
            This allows most full page writes to happen in the background
-           writer.
+           writer.  It might cause problems for applying WAL on recovery
+           into a partially-written page, but later the full page will be
+           replaced from WAL.
 
   
   Reduce WAL traffic so only modified values are written rather than