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Document that BBU's do not allow partial page writes to be safely turned

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off unless they guarantee that all writes to the BBU arrive in 8kB chunks.

Per discussion with Greg Smith
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Bruce Momjian 2010-12-22 21:12:00 -05:00
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<productname>PostgreSQL</> periodically writes full page images to
permanent WAL storage <emphasis>before</> modifying the actual page on
disk. By doing this, during crash recovery <productname>PostgreSQL</> can
restore partially-written pages from WAL. If you have a battery-backed disk
controller or file-system software that prevents partial page writes
(e.g., ZFS), you can safely turn off this page imaging by turning off the
<xref linkend="guc-full-page-writes"> parameter.
restore partially-written pages from WAL. If you have file-system software
that prevents partial page writes (e.g., ZFS), you can turn off
this page imaging by turning off the <xref
linkend="guc-full-page-writes"> parameter. Battery-Backed Unit
(BBU) disk controllers do not prevent partial page writes unless
they guarantee that data is written to the BBU as full (8kB) pages.
</para>
</sect1>