| From: | "Pierre C" <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com> |
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| To: | "James Mansion" <james(at)mansionfamily(dot)plus(dot)com>, "Hannu Krosing" <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Yeb Havinga" <yebhavinga(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Greg Smith" <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: mysql to postgresql, performance questions |
| Date: | 2010-03-25 20:29:44 |
| Message-ID: | op.u944juqoeorkce@localhost |
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> Hannu Krosing wrote:
>> Pulling the plug should not corrupt a postgreSQL database, unless it was
>> using disks which lie about write caching.
>>
> Didn't we recently put the old wife's 'the disks lied' tale to bed in
> favour of actually admiting that some well known filesystems and
> saftware raid systems have had trouble with their write barriers?
I put a cheap UPS on the home server (which uses Software RAID) precisely
because I don't really trust that stuff, and there is also the RAID5 write
hole... and maybe the RAID1 write hole too... and installing a UPS takes
less time that actually figuring out if the system is power-loss-safe.
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