From: James Mansion <james@mansionfamily.plus.com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@rice.edu>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: mysql to postgresql, performance questions
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:04:48 +0000
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Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Pulling the plug should not corrupt a postgreSQL database, unless it was
> using disks which lie about write caching.
>
Didn't we recently put the old wife's 'the disks lied' tale to bed in
favour of actually admiting that some well known filesystems and
saftware raid systems have had trouble with their write barriers?
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