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commit    f0a2a919181e2dd5c564e0df2f04a7cf00b21043
Author:   Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date:     Thu Jul 07 15:18:26 2005 +0000
First released in: 8.1.0

    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.


 doc/TODO              | 11 ++++++++++-
 doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html | 12 +++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index d9d7113d770..a9691bf7a70 100644
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 PostgreSQL TODO List
 ====================
 Current maintainer:	Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
-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 924570dc118..6b2b48be119 100644
--- a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
+++ b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#FF0000" vlink="#A00000" alink="#0000FF">
 <h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>
 <p>Current maintainer:     Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</a>)<br/>
-Last updated:           Tue Jul  5 23:40:06 EDT 2005
+Last updated:           Thu Jul  7 11:18:18 EDT 2005
 </p>
 <p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/>
 <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>.
@@ -844,6 +844,16 @@ first.
   partial page writes during recovery.  These pages can also be
   eliminated from point-in-time archive files.
 </p>
+  <ul>
+    <li>-Add ability to turn off full page writes
+    </li><li>When off, write CRC to WAL and check file system blocks
+           on recovery
+    </li><li>Write full pages during file system write and not when
+           the page is modified in the buffer cache
+<p>           This allows most full page writes to happen in the background
+           writer.
+</p>
+  </li></ul>
   </li><li>Reduce WAL traffic so only modified values are written rather than
   entire rows?
   </li><li>Add WAL index reliability improvement to non-btree indexes


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