diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO index 5c8f482ea1703f8975f121353924df92710d900f..e0cccd107b0e845e0644b1545bbf7a63dc57653e 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: Mon Jul 25 11:26:58 EDT 2005 +Last updated: Thu Jul 28 23:22:50 EDT 2005 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html. @@ -791,8 +791,8 @@ Cache Usage backends that also have the file open, and the feature is not supported on all operating systems. -* Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching, - especially for WAL writes +* -Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching, + for WAL writes O_DIRECT doesn't have the same media write guarantees as fsync, so it is in addition to the fsync method, not in place of it. diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html index 9f2b56b4c63de04f5cf640b57efd3fee4390f3b9..b4f11edce26483481e0754e8326eac04072fe4c5 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: Mon Jul 25 11:26:58 EDT 2005 +Last updated: Thu Jul 28 23:22:50 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>. @@ -716,8 +716,8 @@ first. backends that also have the file open, and the feature is not supported on all operating systems. </p> - </li><li>Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching, - especially for WAL writes + </li><li>-<em>Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching,</em> + for WAL writes <p> O_DIRECT doesn't have the same media write guarantees as fsync, so it is in addition to the fsync method, not in place of it. </p>