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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: 李彦 Ian Li <liyan82@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 09:21:39 +0100
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david@lang.hm wrote:
> if you don't journal your data then you avoid the problems above, but in 
> a crash you may find that you lost data, even though the filesystem is 
> 'intact' according to fsck.

PostgreSQL itself journals it's data to the WAL, so that shouldn't happen.

-- 
   Heikki Linnakangas
   EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com



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