| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | dale(at)icr(dot)com(dot)au |
| Cc: | Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>, PostgreSQL General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: FreeBSD Softupdates?? |
| Date: | 2000-09-26 20:52:11 |
| Message-ID: | 200009262052.QAA22887@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >
> [snipped thread]
>
> OK, if I'm reading it right, the general concensus seems to be - it'll
> work, but there is a possibility of data loss in event of system
> crash....although everything should be OK 99.9% of the time.
>
> yep, this is about what I thought.. I wanted to get a feel for
> practicality though.
>
> Thanks for all your input guys, I'll stick to my standard filesystem for
> now..
No, softupdates to not affect recovery. Standard PostgreSQL flushes all
stuff to disk on transaction commit, and this it not affected by the
file system softupdate status.
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