| From: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
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| To: | CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Duplicate primary keys/rows |
| Date: | 2005-10-10 21:06:04 |
| Message-ID: | 1128978364.29961.83.camel@state.g2switchworks.com |
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On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 15:51, CSN wrote:
> I don't have a compiler on this machine. If somebody
> can point me to a copy of pg_filedump for Windows (I
> didn't see any using Google) I'd be happy to use it.
> Or perhaps I could compile it under cygwin.
>
> The hard drive is a Western Digital 200GB JD (SATA),
> if that can be used to determine how badly it lies. ;)
The general rule is that ATA (parallel or serial) drives lie. You can
turn off the write cache, which will make it slower, but then it should
be reliable during a power loss.
Or, put it all on a big UPS and hope the power supply never goes out.
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