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From: lst_hoe02@kwsoft.de
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: validating database integrity
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:38:38 +0200
Message-ID: <20110427103838.17521a37t5wp1atc@webmail.kwsoft.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EC39C29B-87B7-4298-8A71-579FD5F94BAD@elevated-dev.com>
References: <EC39C29B-87B7-4298-8A71-579FD5F94BAD@elevated-dev.com>

Zitat von Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>:

> Just had a hard crash, and pg came back looking ok. However, crash  
> was in the driver for the (battery-backed) RAID card, and I know for  
> a fact that one file that was written to the (journaled) file system  
> before the crash was not there after reboot. So, what steps are  
> recommended to make sure pg files are ok?

I would say a full dump will let you know, at least for the data.

> Yeah, battery-backed cache does no good if the driver is crap...

Or the battery is leaking :-)

Regards

Andreas

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