WAL: Insurance Against Disaster
Writing data to disk is expensive and relatively slow. If the database wrote every change straight into table files, performance would suffer. To combine speed and reliability (the D in ACID—Durability), PostgreSQL uses WAL (Write-Ahead Logging).
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