pgsql: Add reliability docs about storage/memory corruptions.

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Add reliability docs about storage/memory corruptions.
Date: 2013-03-18 22:39:09
Message-ID: E1UHihx-0007pN-BY@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Add reliability docs about storage/memory corruptions.
Add section to the Reliability section about what is and is not protected for
various file types.
Further edits welcome.

Designed to allow 1-2 line change when/if checksums are committed.

Inspired by docs written by Jeff Davis, though completely different from his
patch.

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master

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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2266db392cb825eccb39518e7b652e7f336fff6c

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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