Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2250AB5DBDE for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:59:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 45111-01 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:59:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: delayed 00:19:32.115387 by SQLgrey-1.8.0-rc2 Received: from sam.nabble.com (sam.nabble.com [216.139.236.26]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 748FCB5DBD8 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:59:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.236.26] (helo=sam.nabble.com) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RDgIk-0004u6-QV for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:39:38 -0700 Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:39:38 -0700 (PDT) From: gabriel12345 To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Message-ID: <1318354778815-4892578.post@n5.nabble.com> Subject: Contents of WAL files MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.863 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD=1.63, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL=0.01, URI_HEX=1.122 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201110/69 X-Sequence-Number: 38521 I was reading Chapter 29 of the postgres manual about WAL files and couldn't find any specific information about what is actually in the WAL files, per se. To be as specific as possible, can anyone provide more detail about what content is actually written into these files? http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/wal.html http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/wal.html -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Contents-of-WAL-files-tp4892578p4892578.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - admin mailing list archive at Nabble.com.