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Re: PostgreSQL, NetBSD and NFS

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Greg Copeland <greg@CopelandConsulting.Net>
Cc: mlw <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>, current-users@netbsd.org
Date: 2003-01-30T21:02:17Z
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Greg Copeland <greg@CopelandConsulting.Net> writes:
> That was going to be my question too.
> I thought NFS didn't have some of the requisite file system behaviors
> (locking, flushing, etc. IIRC) for PostgreSQL to function correctly or
> reliably.

Whether the thing is trustworthy is a different issue ;-).  I was just
surprised that it didn't seem to work at all.

In practice, if the NFS server never goes down then you probably haven't
got a problem.  I'm not sure you could count on the database not getting
scrambled if the NFS server crashes.  But that wasn't the question...

			regards, tom lane