From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] full_page_writes = off?
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:51:17 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200712101451.lBAEpHR19315@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0712100918320.14895@westnet.com>
Greg Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > exist for disk controller caches. Consumer-grade IDE drives are
> >! particularly likely to have write-back caches that will not survive a
> >! power failure. To check write caching on <productname>Linux</> use
> >! <command>hdparm -I</>; it is enabled if there is a <literal>*</> next
> >! to <literal>Write cache</>. <command>hdparm -W</> can to turn off
> >! write caching. On <productname>FreeBSD</> use
>
> I'm not where I can submit this as a patch right now, but there are two
> things that should get fixed in the above:
>
> --Saying "Consumer-grade IDE drives" isn't quite right; "Consumer-grade
> IDE and SATA drives" would correctly label the scope of the problem.
>
> --There's a typo on the next to last line here: "can to turn off".
Thanks, both done.
--
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com
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