Update:

>
> 	o  -Add ability to turn off full page writes
> 	o  When off, write CRC to WAL and check file system blocks
> 	   on recovery
> 	o  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.

diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index d9d7113d77079839be8602e2525f3c09de64b0af..a9691bf7a702269931ef1b4bc8f8df46d774fe7a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 PostgreSQL TODO List
 ====================
 Current maintainer:    Bruce Momjian ([email protected])
-Last updated:      Tue Jul  5 23:40:06 EDT 2005
+Last updated:      Thu Jul  7 11:18:18 EDT 2005
 
 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
@@ -936,6 +936,15 @@ Write-Ahead Log
   partial page writes during recovery.  These pages can also be
   eliminated from point-in-time archive files.
 
+   o  -Add ability to turn off full page writes
+   o  When off, write CRC to WAL and check file system blocks
+      on recovery
+   o  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.
+
 * Reduce WAL traffic so only modified values are written rather than
   entire rows?
 * Add WAL index reliability improvement to non-btree indexes

diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
index 924570dc118963ab1f77fd0fbca53d75e34c2c02..6b2b48be119160fb130ef322c749eb5a1b520711 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:           Tue Jul  5 23:40:06 EDT 2005
+Last updated:           Thu Jul  7 11:18:18 EDT 2005
 
 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
@@ -844,6 +844,16 @@ first.
   partial page writes during recovery.  These pages can also be
   eliminated from point-in-time archive files.
 
+  
+    -Add ability to turn off full page writes
+    When off, write CRC to WAL and check file system blocks
+           on recovery
+    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.
+
+  
   Reduce WAL traffic so only modified values are written rather than
   entire rows?
   Add WAL index reliability improvement to non-btree indexes