Re: What is WAL used for?

From: Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
To: Cott Lang <cott(at)internetstaff(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What is WAL used for?
Date: 2003-12-08 16:13:21
Message-ID: 87d6azthi6.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org
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Cott Lang <cott(at)internetstaff(dot)com> writes:

> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 02:53, Thierry Missimilly wrote:
>
>> For exemple, with the root privilege :
>> mount -t ext3 -o data=writeback /dev/sdb1 /data1
>
> Thanks, but my problem is I need to change the root partition to
> data=writeback, which you can't do by changing fstab. :(

I think there is a kernel boot argument for this, but I don't know
what it's called. Google will probably turn it up...

You shouldn't have your database files on / on a production system
anyway. /var should be a separate partition.

-Doug

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