Re: Power outage and funny chars in the logs

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Power outage and funny chars in the logs
Date: 2009-05-07 13:55:17
Message-ID: 16974.1241704517@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> What did make me scratch my head was a short stream of @ symbols (well they show up as @ symbols in vi) in the log file of the main server (others are slony subscribers).

There isn't anything making any effort to fsync the postmaster log, so
some data corruption in the log is hardly surprising.

regards, tom lane

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