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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: 9.6 and fsync=off
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:44:26 -0400
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Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> +1 (Abhijit's wording with data loss changed to data corruption)

I'd suggest something like

#fsync = on				# flush data to disk for crash safety
					# (turning this off can cause
					# unrecoverable data corruption!)

			regards, tom lane


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