Questions about fsync

From: "Fabio C(dot) Bon" <bon(at)kernel(dot)net(dot)uy>
To: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Questions about fsync
Date: 2005-08-04 13:22:56
Message-ID: 02a801c598f7$a0e58e70$0501a8c0@fabio
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In the context of PostgreSQL 7.4, running over Linux Suse 9.0, I have some
doubts that wanted to evacuate:

In which processes impacts the property fsync?

Which can be the problem to use fsync in false?

When use fsync = false, the effective recording of the data in disk is done
for criteria of the operating system, ¿ Is exact?

Considering fsync = false, checkpoint_timeout=300.
It given a crash of the operating system, after normally db shutdown. At db
startup, there was corruption of data and a pg_resetlog
was done.

It is possible to lose data changed previous to last checkpoint ?

Thanks,
Fabio

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  • Replication at 2005-08-05 12:32:15 from Marco Rademeyer

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