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Re: Re: Recovery of PGSQL after system crash failing!!!

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: thomas@pgsql.com
Cc: Ryan Kirkpatrick <pgsql@rkirkpat.net>, "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>, "'Zeugswetter Andreas SB'" <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-02-14T02:40:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> Since there is a fundamental recovery problem if the WAL file
> disappears, then perhaps we should have a workaround which can ignore
> the requirement for that file on startup? Or maybe we do already?
> Vadim??
> 
> Also, could the "-F" option be disabled now that WAL is enabled? Or is
> there still some reason to encourage/allow folks to use it?

The system still fsyncs, so -F is still useful, I think.

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