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<!--==========================orignal english content==========================
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<para>
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Reliability is an important property of any serious database
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- system, and <productname>PostgreSQL</> does everything possible to
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+ system, and <productname>PostgreSQL</productname > does everything possible to
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guarantee reliable operation. One aspect of reliable operation is
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that all data recorded by a committed transaction should be stored
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in a nonvolatile area that is safe from power loss, operating
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First, there is the operating system's buffer cache, which caches
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frequently requested disk blocks and combines disk writes. Fortunately,
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all operating systems give applications a way to force writes from
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- the buffer cache to disk, and <productname>PostgreSQL</> uses those
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- features. (See the <xref linkend="guc-wal-sync-method"> parameter
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+ the buffer cache to disk, and <productname>PostgreSQL</productname > uses those
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+ features. (See the <xref linkend="guc-wal-sync-method"/ > parameter
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to adjust how this is done.)
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</para>
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<!--==========================orignal english content==========================
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<para>
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Next, there might be a cache in the disk drive controller; this is
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- particularly common on <acronym>RAID</> controller cards. Some of
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- these caches are <firstterm>write-through</>, meaning writes are sent
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+ particularly common on <acronym>RAID</acronym > controller cards. Some of
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+ these caches are <firstterm>write-through</firstterm >, meaning writes are sent
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to the drive as soon as they arrive. Others are
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- <firstterm>write-back</>, meaning data is sent to the drive at
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+ <firstterm>write-back</firstterm >, meaning data is sent to the drive at
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some later time. Such caches can be a reliability hazard because the
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memory in the disk controller cache is volatile, and will lose its
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contents in a power failure. Better controller cards have
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- <firstterm>battery-backup units</> (<acronym>BBU</>s), meaning
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+ <firstterm>battery-backup units</firstterm > (<acronym>BBU</acronym >s), meaning
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the card has a battery that
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maintains power to the cache in case of system power loss. After power
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is restored the data will be written to the disk drives.
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<acronym>WAL</acronym> logs are stored in the directory
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<filename>pg_wal</filename> under the data directory, as a set of
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segment files, normally each 16 MB in size (but the size can be changed
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- by altering the <option>-−with-wal-segsize</> configure option when
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- building the server). Each segment is divided into pages, normally
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- 8 kB each (this size can be changed via the <option>-−with-wal-blocksize</>
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- configure option). The log record headers are described in
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- <filename>access/xlogrecord.h</filename>; the record content is dependent
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- on the type of event that is being logged. Segment files are given
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- ever-increasing numbers as names, starting at
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+ by altering the <option>-−with-wal-segsize</> initdb option). Each segment is
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+ divided into pages, normally 8 kB each (this size can be changed via the
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+ <option>-−with-wal-blocksize</> configure option). The log record headers
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+ are described in <filename>access/xlogrecord.h</filename>; the record
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+ content is dependent on the type of event that is being logged. Segment
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+ files are given ever-increasing numbers as names, starting at
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<filename>000000010000000000000000</filename>. The numbers do not wrap,
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but it will take a very, very long time to exhaust the
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available stock of numbers.
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