From: | Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de> |
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To: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> |
Cc: | Michael Clark <codingninja(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Possible causes for database corruption and solutions |
Date: | 2009-12-16 10:41:14 |
Message-ID: | 82hbrri4l1.fsf@mid.bfk.de |
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* Craig Ringer:
> On 16/12/2009 3:54 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Michael Clark:
>>
>>> The solution to the problem seemed to be to change the value for the
>>> wal_sync_method setting to fsync_writethrough from the default of fsync.
>>> I was curious if there were perhaps any other reasons that we should look
>>> at? Or if there may be other alternatives to changing the wal_sync_method
>>> setting.
>>
>> Fsync and related settings only matter if the operating system (not
>> just the database) crashes. Does this happen frequently for you?
>
> When you're dealing with end users who have machines running
> god-knows-what kinds of awful hardware drivers
Even Mac OS X? There should be less variety.
> and with no power protection, then I expect it does. Add laptop
> users with ageing/flakey batteries, laptops let go flat after they
> go into powersave suspend, etc, and you're sure to see plenty of
> cases of apparent crashes.
I hope that Mac OS X turns off write caches on low battery.
Improperly disconnected external drives are quite common and the
effect mimics operating system crashes, but is it common to store
PostgreSQL databases there? I don't think so.
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