Update:

bmomjian · bmomjian · commit 442b59dd8bc4 · 2005-07-07T16:02:06.000Z
&lt; 	   writer.
&gt; 	   writer.  It might cause problems for applying WAL on recovery
&gt; 	   into a partially-written page, but later the full page will be
&gt; 	   replaced from WAL.
diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 PostgreSQL TODO List
 ====================
 Current maintainer:	Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
-Last updated:		Thu Jul  7 11:18:18 EDT 2005
+Last updated:		Thu Jul  7 12:01:59 EDT 2005
 
 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
@@ -943,7 +943,9 @@ Write-Ahead Log
 	   the page is modified in the buffer cache
 
 	   This allows most full page writes to happen in the background
-	   writer.
+	   writer.  It might cause problems for applying WAL on recovery
+	   into a partially-written page, but later the full page will be
+	   replaced from WAL.
 
 * Reduce WAL traffic so only modified values are written rather than
   entire rows?
diff --git 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:           Thu Jul  7 11:18:18 EDT 2005
+Last updated:           Thu Jul  7 12:01:59 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>.
@@ -851,7 +851,9 @@ <h1><a name="section_19">Write-Ahead Log</a></h1>
     </li><li>Write full pages during file system write and not when
            the page is modified in the buffer cache
 <p>           This allows most full page writes to happen in the background
-           writer.
+           writer.  It might cause problems for applying WAL on recovery
+           into a partially-written page, but later the full page will be
+           replaced from WAL.
 </p>
   </li></ul>
   </li><li>Reduce WAL traffic so only modified values are written rather than
