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	Transaction Logging Concepts
		The information that is recorded in the log records is such that one can combine the data in the log record with the data in the old version of a database block to produce a new, updated version of the block.
		The purpose of the after-image log is to provide a mechanism for recovering from a failure that destroys all or part of the databases data files or all or part of the before-image log.
		This means that when the database manager writes a log buffer to disk (using a write() system call or something similar), the data must actually be written to the disk and not just saved in memory by the operating system or a disk controller.
	www.peg.com /techpapers/monographs/logging/logging.html (5515 words)

	Write ahead logging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In computer science, write ahead logging (WAL) is a family of techniques for providing atomicity and durability (two of the ACID properties) in database systems.
		In a system using WAL, all modifications are written to a log before they are applied to the database.
		ARIES is a popular algorithm in the WAL family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Write_ahead_logging (147 words)

	Write ahead logging -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In (The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures) computer science, Write Ahead Logging (WAL) is a family of techniques for providing atomicity and
		The motivation for WAL is to allow updates of the database to be done (additional info and facts about in-place) in-place.
		(A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Pisces and Taurus) ARIES is a popular algorithm in the WAL family.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wr/write_ahead_logging.htm (194 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		If, on its way to the leaf node, the write operation reaches a node that is not in memory, the worker thread arranges for it to be read from the log and the write operation is placed on a pending queue as with a read operation.
		Writing dirty nodes only when necessary and then in deepest first order minimizes the number of nodes written to the log and increases the average number of changes that are reflected in each node written.
		When a write operation is received, the server calculates the amount of space in the log that is required to complete the write and update the B-tree, based on the size of the write and the current topology of the B-tree.
	www.research.compaq.com /wrl/DECarchives/DTJ/DTJM02/DTJM02SC.TXT (9955 words)

	Write-Ahead Logging (WAL)
		Briefly, WAL's central concept is that changes to data files (where tables and indexes reside) must be written only after those changes have been logged - that is, when log records have been flushed to permanent storage.
		Furthermore, the log file is written sequentially, and so the cost of syncing the log is much less than the cost of flushing the data pages.
		Implementing this facility will require the logging of data file and index creation and deletion; it will also require development of a method for copying the data files (operating system copy commands are not suitable).
	homepages.gac.edu /~wolfe/270/2004S/pgsql/wal.html (572 words)

	Derby Write Ahead Log Format
		Once the log records have been forced to disk, the cached page may be written to persistent storage, overwriting the previous version of the page.
		The WAL protocol ensures that in the event of a system crash, databases pages can be restored to a consistent state using the information contained in the log records.
		Logs can be stored on a separate disk from the data, and if you lose your data disk then you can use rollforward recovery on the existing logs and the copy of the backup to bring your database up to the current point in time.
	db.apache.org /derby/papers/logformats.html (1342 words)

	26.2.Â Write-Ahead Logging (WAL)
		Briefly, WAL's central concept is that changes to data files (where tables and indexes reside) must be written only after those changes have been logged, that is, when log records describing the changes have been flushed to permanent storage.
		A major benefit of using WAL is a significantly reduced number of disk writes, because only the log file needs to be flushed to disk at the time of transaction commit, rather than every data file changed by the transaction.
		By archiving the WAL data we can support reverting to any time instant covered by the available WAL data: we simply install a prior physical backup of the database, and replay the WAL log just as far as the desired time.
	www.pgadmin.org /docs/1.4/pg/wal-intro.html (271 words)

	Managing the RDU Database
		Database changes that were written into the log but not, prior to a crash, written into the database are, during automatic recovery, written into the database.
		Provided that all log files exist, in sequence, since the last database backup, the database can be recovered, however, the log files must be in sequence.
		The only restriction in place is that all log files have to be sequential, that is, the numeric extensions of all log files have to cover a complete range of numbers.
	www.cisco.com /univercd/cc/td/doc/product/rtrmgmt/bpr/admin/chap_5.htm (2643 words)

	SQL Server 7.0, SQL Server 2000, and SQL Server 2005 logging and data storage algorithms extend data reliability
		The WAL protocol asserts that the log records representing changes to some data must already be in stable storage before the changed data is allowed to replace the previous version of the data in nonvolatile storage.
		That is, the system is not allowed to write an updated page to the nonvolatile storage version of the page until at least the undo portions of the log records which describe the updates to the page have been written to stable storage.
		Host write commands continue to be accepted and data transferred to the buffer until either the write command stack is full or the data buffer is full.
	support.microsoft.com /kb/230785 (3569 words)

	Database Management
		Write-ahead logging involves writing a description of any database change to a log file prior to writing the change into the database files.
		In this way, write-ahead logging virtually guarantees that the database does not become corrupted when the RDU server crashes because the database is automatically repaired when the RDU server is restarted.
		The duration of database recovery depends on the number of database log files that had to be copied as part of the backup, which in turn depends on the level of RDU activity at the time of the backup.
	www.cisco.com /univercd/cc/td/doc/product/rtrmgmt/baccable/cable25/admin/chap_6.htm (2310 words)

	Ling Huang's World
		A log sequence number is used in each page to correlate the state of a page to the logged updating.
		Log is written when any actions of updating a page, commit, abort, end and undoing an update happens.
		If the logged action must be done, then the logged action is reapplied and the pageLSN on he page is set to the LSN of the redone log record.
	www.cs.berkeley.edu /~hling/courses/cs262a/aries.htm (530 words)

	Implementation
		The WAL buffers and control structure are in shared memory, and are handled by the backends; they are protected by lightweight locks.
		The aim of WAL, to ensure that the log is written before database records are altered, may be subverted by disk drives that falsely report a successful write to the kernel, when, in fact, they have only cached the data and not yet stored it on the disk.
		Because the entire content of data pages is saved in the log on the first page modification after a checkpoint, all pages changed since the checkpoint will be restored to a consistent state.
	homepages.gac.edu /~karl/courses/mcs270-s03/pgsql/wal-implementation.html (410 words)

	Write-Ahead Logging (WAL)
		's central concept is that changes to data files (where tables and indexes reside) must be written only after those changes have been logged, that is, when log records have been flushed to permanent storage.
		is a significantly reduced number of disk writes, since only the log file needs to be flushed to disk at the time of transaction commit; in multiuser environments, commits of many transactions may be accomplished with a single
		Furthermore, the log file is written sequentially, and so the cost of syncing the log is much less than the cost of flushing the data pages.
	k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us /docs/postgres/wal.html (213 words)

	Scalability in the XFS File System
		For example, creating a file requires logging the directory block containing the new entry, the newly allocated inode, the inode allocation tree block describing the allocated inode, the allocation group header block containing the count of free inodes, and the superblock to record the change in its count of free inodes.
		XFS uses a write ahead transaction log to gather all the writes of an update into a single disk I/O, and it writes the transaction log asynchronously in order to decouple the metadata update rate from the speed of the disks.
		We still ensure that the write ahead logging protocol is followed in that modified data cannot be flushed to disk until after the data is committed to the on-disk log.
	oss.sgi.com /projects/xfs/papers/xfs_usenix/index.html (10244 words)

	Journaling with ReiserFS \| Linux Journal
		The most obvious optimization is to write to the log in big sequential chunks and lower the number of commit blocks written.
		However, the log is a fixed size, so user processes might have to wait for log space to become available before they can start a new transaction.
		During the fsync call, you log the data blocks and metadata required to add the file in the tree, producing one large sequential write.
	www.linuxjournal.com /article.php?sid=4466 (2446 words)

	Berkeley DB Reference Guide: Berkeley DB and logging
		The Logging subsystem is the logging facility used by Berkeley DB.
		The log_put interface is used to append new log records to the log.
		The log_get interface is used to retrieve log records from the log.
	pybsddb.sourceforge.net /ref/log/intro.html (308 words)

	DBAzine.com: Transaction Logs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A log is a group of log records that are written serially, that is, all new log records are appended to the end.
		Writes to the log may be mirrored [23].
		With circular logging, it's possible to have one process (the log writer) writing new log records at the end of the log, while another process (the archiver) is reading older log records.
	www.dbazine.com /db2/db2-disarticles/gulutzan2 (5544 words)

	Write-Ahead Logging (WAL)
		is a significantly reduced number of disk writes, because only the log file needs to be flushed to disk at the time of transaction commit, rather than every data file changed by the transaction.
		By archiving the WAL data we can support reverting to any time instant covered by the available WAL data: we simply install a prior physical backup of the database, and replay the WAL log just as far as the desired time.
		What's more, the physical backup doesn't have to be an instantaneous snapshot of the database state — if it is made over some period of time, then replaying the WAL log for that period will fix any internal inconsistencies.
	www.ip97.com /pgsql/wal.html (343 words)

	Method for providing data availability in a transaction-oriented system during restart after a failure - Patent 5333303 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The UNDO component utilizes the log records to track back from the point of failure all transactions which were unnaturally terminated by the failure and rolls those transactions back.
		The log records for each transaction are entered into the log in a sequence, with each record being assigned a log sequence number corresponding to its place in the sequence.
		Even in those systems which do not log a DPL or equivalent at checkpoint, DPL table could be generated by the restart recovery mechanism by scanning the log from the REDO.sub.13 LSN to the end of the log.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /5333303.html (8675 words)

	WAL Configuration
		As a result, in the event of a crash, the crash recovery procedure knows from what point in the log (known as the redo record) it should start the REDO operation, since any changes made to data files before that point are already on disk.
		Ordinarily, when old log segment files are no longer needed, they are recycled (renamed to become the next segments in the numbered sequence).
		This delay allows other server processes to add their commit records to the log so as to have all of them flushed with a single log sync.
	www.enterprisedb.com /documentation/wal-configuration.html (692 words)

	AvalonNoLogging - Avalon Wiki
		Of these three uses for logging, the two latter basically boils down to the first one - we want to see what is going on inside this piece of code that we have here.
		Sure, there are systems that produce performance monitoring logs, and write-ahead-logging is a well known technique, but as commonly discussed, logging is all about outputting textual messages for a user to read.
		The criteria to use when determining whether logging is right or wrong is the size of the component and the environment it will be deployed in.
	wiki.apache.org /avalon/AvalonNoLogging (930 words)

	WeberTrivia.com -> PostgreSQL 7.4.2 Manual -> Write-Ahead Logging (WAL)
		Briefly, WAL's central concept is that changes to data files (where tables and indexes reside) must be written only after those changes have been logged, that is, when log records have been flushed to permanent storage.
		The first obvious benefit of using WAL is a significantly reduced number of disk writes, since only the log file needs to be flushed to disk at the time of transaction commit; in multiuser environments, commits of many transactions may be accomplished with a single
		The truth is that, before WAL, PostgreSQL was never able to guarantee consistency in the case of a crash.
	www.webertrivia.com /Manuals/Postgre7.4.2/wal.html (307 words)

	JFS overview
		Specifically, an I/O error during the write to disk of the log or meta-data means that a time-consuming and potentially intrusive full integrity check is required after a system crash to restore the file system to a consistent state.
		JFS logging semantics are such that, when a file system operation involving meta-data changes -- that is, unlink() -- returns a successful return code, the effects of the operation have been committed to the file system and will be seen even if the system crashes.
		If the file system is not deemed clean, indicating that the log was not replayed completely and correctly for some reason or that the file system could not be restored to a consistent state simply by replaying the log, then a full pass of the file system is performed.
	www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/linux/library/l-jfs.html (2479 words)

	ILog File Based Implementation
		The log uses a file as a circular buffer, which enables unused space to be reused.
		Changes to the log are made atomically, so that the contents of the log may be recovered after a crash.
		Passing zero as the LSN indicates all of the log is to be forced to disk.
	msdn2.microsoft.com /en-us/library/aa746554.aspx (492 words)

	ChapterÂ 26.Â Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log
		Successfully writing the data to the computer's permanent storage (disk drive or equivalent) ordinarily meets this requirement.
		When the operating system sends a write request to the disk hardware, there is little it can do to make sure the data has arrived at a truly non-volatile storage area.
		When a write request arrives at the drive, it might be for 512 bytes, 1024 bytes, or 8192 bytes, and the process of writing could fail due to power loss at any time, meaning some of the 512-byte sectors were written, and others were not.
	www.pgadmin.org /docs/1.4/pg/wal.html (576 words)

	Write-Ahead Logging (WAL)
		's central concept is that changes to data files (where tables and indexes reside) must be written only after those changes have been logged, that is, when log records describing the changes have been flushed to permanent storage.
		is a significantly reduced number of disk writes, because only the log file needs to be flushed to disk at the time of transaction commit, rather than every data file changed by the transaction.
		What's more, the physical backup doesn't have to be an instantaneous snapshot of the database state - if it is made over some period of time, then replaying the WAL log for that period will fix any internal inconsistencies.
	www.enterprisedb.com /documentation/wal.html (331 words)

	Recovery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		On restart after a failure, the basic recovery process is to use the log stored on stable storage to undo the effects of aborted and incomplete transactions (in reverse order) and to redo the effects of committed transactions (in forward order).
		A complication is that both the database itself and the log use memory buffers, so data written to the database or to the log are not necessarily recorded in stable storage immediately.
		Checkpoints are used to periodically write the log and changed database pages to disk, recording the fact on the disk, to reduce the work required on restart after failure.
	www.cit.gu.edu.au /~rwt/uoe/1.3.r.html (557 words)

	Charles Babbage Institute: RESEARCH PROGRAM> Current research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Further, most recovery is based on posting changes to database state in a log, from which operations are either redone or undone as required.
		Recovery was present in some pre-1970 systems, but log based recovery exploiting write-ahead logging (WAL) and tracking database changes using log sequence numbers (LSNs) originated with the IMS Program Isolation Feature (circa 1971), architected by Ron Obermarck.
		A collection of techniques, exploiting WAL, CLRs, LSNs, and a paradigm that included “repeating history” and enabling a form of “logical undo” when necessary were brought together as the ARIES recovery technique, which is the current basis for recovery in most commercial database systems.
	www.cbi.umn.edu /shp/entries/recovery.html (399 words)

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