Re: Migrating from Informix to Postgre

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tommi Maekitalo <t(dot)maekitalo(at)epgmbh(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Migrating from Informix to Postgre
Date: 2002-10-21 14:21:01
Message-ID: 17072.1035210061@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tommi Maekitalo <t(dot)maekitalo(at)epgmbh(dot)de> writes:
> It would be difficult to guarantee dataintegrity, when the datapages are
> written before WAL is on the hard-disk.

Indeed, which is why we never do that. WAL is always fsync'd.

regards, tom lane

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