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authorAlex Gorrod <alexander.gorrod@mongodb.com>2015-06-04 09:52:13 +1000
committerAlex Gorrod <alexander.gorrod@mongodb.com>2015-06-04 09:52:13 +1000
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Update NEWS
Factor in review feedback from @sueloverso
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@@ -12,8 +12,10 @@ New features:
with caution.
refs #1989
-* Add the ability to asynchronously flush transactions via a new
- WT_SESSION::transaction_sync API.
+* Add the ability to flag a transaction to be flushed asynchronously on
+ commit via a new sycn=[background configuration option. Add a new
+ WT_SESSION::transaction_sync API to wait for asynchronous flushes to
+ complete.
refs WT-1908, #1943
* Add the ability to create a named in-memory snapshot via a new
@@ -22,7 +24,8 @@ New features:
* Move the sync configuration setting from WT_SESSION::begin_transaction to
WT_SESSION::commit_transaction. Some applications don't know whether they
- need to sync a transaction to disk until they come to commit.
+ need to sync a transaction to disk until they come to commit. See
+ upgrading documentation for more information.
refs WT-1908
@@ -42,7 +45,8 @@ Other noteworthy changes:
refs WT-1953
* Fix a bug in the WiredTiger command line utility where it could create a
- base configuration file for an existing database.
+ base configuration file for an existing database, if there had been a
+ crash while creating the database.
refs WT-1943
* Fix a build problem where recent versions of RedHat would fail to detect
@@ -50,8 +54,8 @@ Other noteworthy changes:
refs WT-1951
* Fix several problems with how we create, recover and backup databases.
- Related to order of creation and differences between Windows and Posix
- file semantic differences.
+ Related to order of creation and differences between Windows and POSIX
+ file system semantics.
refs #1993
* Fix a bug where we could flush the log file more often than required if
@@ -75,7 +79,7 @@ Other noteworthy changes:
refs WT-1745
* Improve performance and avoid changing files on startup if no recovery is
- required by by avoiding the creation of unnecessary checkpoints and log
+ required by avoiding the creation of unnecessary checkpoints and log
records for files that haven't changed.
refs WT-1936