Done:

bmomjian · bmomjian · commit c441e26ee802 · 2007-08-01T23:13:31.000Z
&lt; * Allow buffered WAL writes and fsync
diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 PostgreSQL TODO List
 ====================
 Current maintainer:	Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us)
-Last updated:		Tue Jul 17 20:15:52 EDT 2007
+Last updated:		Wed Aug  1 19:13:20 EDT 2007
 
 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
@@ -1330,15 +1330,7 @@ Write-Ahead Log
   rotation to fsync again. One idea is to write the WAL to different
   offsets that might reduce the rotational delay.
 
-* Allow buffered WAL writes and fsync
-
-  Instead of guaranteeing recovery of all committed transactions, this
-  would provide improved performance by delaying WAL writes and fsync
-  so an abrupt operating system restart might lose a few seconds of
-  committed transactions but still be consistent.  We could perhaps
-  remove the 'fsync' parameter (which results in an an inconsistent
-  database) in favor of this capability.
-
+* -Allow buffered WAL writes and fsync
 * Allow WAL logging to be turned off for a table, but the table
   might be dropped or truncated during crash recovery [walcontrol]
 
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:bruce@momjian.us">bruce@momjian.us</a>)<br/>
-Last updated:           Tue Jul 17 20:15:52 EDT 2007
+Last updated:           Wed Aug  1 19:13:20 EDT 2007
 </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>.
@@ -1182,14 +1182,7 @@ <h1><a name="section_18">Write-Ahead Log</a></h1>
   rotation to fsync again. One idea is to write the WAL to different
   offsets that might reduce the rotational delay.
 </p>
-  </li><li>Allow buffered WAL writes and fsync
-<p>  Instead of guaranteeing recovery of all committed transactions, this
-  would provide improved performance by delaying WAL writes and fsync
-  so an abrupt operating system restart might lose a few seconds of
-  committed transactions but still be consistent.  We could perhaps
-  remove the 'fsync' parameter (which results in an an inconsistent
-  database) in favor of this capability.
-</p>
+  </li><li>-<em>Allow buffered WAL writes and fsync</em>
   </li><li>Allow WAL logging to be turned off for a table, but the table
   might be dropped or truncated during crash recovery [<a href="http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgtodo?walcontrol">walcontrol</a>]
 <p>  Allow tables to bypass WAL writes and just fsync() dirty pages on
