Re: [GENERAL] postgresql 7.1

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Martin A. Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001011 19:10] wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Asidha Luhwidyanto wrote:
> > What;s the new in Postgresql 7.1 ?
> 
> TOAST and WAL!!!!
> 
> I think these are big changes that will make me think about postgresql as a 
> big time competitor against the big commercial database engines.
> 
> WAL is a backup system.

afaik WAL means the end of the dreaded 'vacuum', it allows the system
to reuse free space without explicitly scanning the datafiles, it should
also do it in a manner that still allows transactional dumping.

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