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From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@geri.cc.fer.hr>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to allocate 8 disks
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:45:52 +0100
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> This scares me... You lose WAL you are a goner. Combine your OS and
> WAL into a RAID 1.

Can someone elaborate on this? From the WAL concept and documentation at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/wal-intro.html I'd say
the only data that should be lost are the transactions currently in the
log but not yet transferred to permanent storage (database files proper).






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