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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>
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Subject: Re: 9.6 and fsync=off
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Comments: In-reply-to Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>
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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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