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Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: 李彦 Ian Li <liyan82@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Date: 2007-05-08T08:21:39Z
Lists: pgsql-performance 
david@lang.hm wrote:
> if you don't journal your data then you avoid the problems above, but in 
> a crash you may find that you lost data, even though the filesystem is 
> 'intact' according to fsck.

PostgreSQL itself journals it's data to the WAL, so that shouldn't happen.

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