Re: Idea for reducing planning time

From: ncm(at)zembu(dot)com (Nathan Myers)
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Idea for reducing planning time
Date: 2000-12-15 21:37:51
Message-ID: 20001215133751.D10336@store.zembu.com
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On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 03:20:27PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]
> > > It seems that Tom has committed his fixups but we're still waiting
> > > on Vadim?
> >
> > Sorry guys, I'm busy with WAL issues currently.
> > CRC will require initdb, so it's better to implement it
> > first...
>
> Can someone please remind me? CRC allows us to know of WAL log is
> corrupt?

There are two uses for CRC in connection with the WAL log
("write-ahead log log"). First, it helps to reveal corruption
in the log. Second, it makes it possible to identify the end of
the log when the log lives on a raw partition.

Nathan Myers
ncm(at)zembu(dot)com

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