Major changes in this release:
- Write-ahead Log(WAL) - To maintain database consistency in case
+ Write-ahead Log (WAL) - To maintain database consistency in case
of an operating system crash, previous releases of PostgreSQL have
forced all data modifications to disk before each transaction commit.
With WAL, only one log file must be flushed to disk, greatly improving
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- Write-ahead Log(WAL)
+ Write-ahead Log (WAL)
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