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Hmm, I don't think I follow—what is the third buffer?



The main database file, the WAL, and the second WAL. Though I do agree with you that I also think about this as double-buffering, as I think of the database file as the screen.


Database actual?

The buffering analogy doesn’t really work tho, because all three sources (db file, wal being flushed, and wal being written to) are read sources.




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