Commit 520c41b5 authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian

Add documentation mention that full page writes have to be enabled for

full pages to be restored during recovery.

Per private report from Michael Renner
parent 6faf495b
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml,v 1.57 2008/12/18 22:34:21 momjian Exp $ -->
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml,v 1.58 2009/01/15 00:34:25 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="wal">
<title>Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log</title>
......@@ -543,7 +543,8 @@
then the checkpoint record; then it performs the REDO operation by
scanning forward from the log position indicated in the checkpoint
record. Because the entire content of data pages is saved in the
log on the first page modification after a checkpoint, all pages
log on the first page modification after a checkpoint (assuming
<xref linkend="guc-full-page-writes"> is not disabled), all pages
changed since the checkpoint will be restored to a consistent
state.
</para>
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