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Re: Dumping and reloading stuff in 6.5.3

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Lincoln Yeoh <lylyeoh@mecomb.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-05-15T14:15:53Z
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Lincoln Yeoh <lylyeoh@mecomb.com> writes:
> Actually, say if I use postgresql on a journalling file system, would this
> problem go away?

Not unless your kernel guarantees to write dirty buffers to disk in the
order they were dirtied, which would be a fairly surprising thing for it
to guarantee IMHO; that's not how Unix buffer caches normally behave.

			regards, tom lane