Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] win32 performance - fsync question

"Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> writes:

> > I'm a bit surprised that the write-cache lead to a corrupt database, and
> > not merely lost transactions. I had the impression that drives still
> > handled the writes in the order received.
>
> In this case, it was lost transactions, not data corruption.
> ...
> A couple of the latest transactions were gone, but the database came up
> in a consistent state, if a bit old.

That's interesting. It would be very interesting to know how reliably this is
true. It could potentially vary depending on the drive firmware.

I can't see any painless way to package up this kind of test for people to run
though. Powercycling machines repeatedly really isn't fun and takes a long
time. And testing this on vmware doesn't buy us anything.

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greg