Re: postgresql 7.1

From: Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>
To: "Martin A(dot) Marques" <martin(at)math(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>
Cc: Asidha Luhwidyanto <asidha(at)thepentagon(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgresql 7.1
Date: 2000-10-12 02:32:48
Message-ID: 20001011193248.E272@fw.wintelcom.net
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* Martin A. Marques <martin(at)math(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar> [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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-Alfred Perlstein - [bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net|alfred(at)freebsd(dot)org]
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