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Re: Migrating from Informix to Postgre

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Tommi Maekitalo <t.maekitalo@epgmbh.de>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-10-21T14:21:01Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
Tommi Maekitalo <t.maekitalo@epgmbh.de> writes:
> It would be difficult to guarantee dataintegrity, when the datapages are 
> written before WAL is on the hard-disk.

Indeed, which is why we never do that.  WAL is always fsync'd.

			regards, tom lane