Re: how critical is WAL

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Rini Dutta <rinid(at)rocketmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: how critical is WAL
Date: 2001-02-22 21:03:23
Message-ID: 200102222103.QAA16626@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > Indexes could get corrupt, requiring rebuilding.
> > That problem is gone
> > with WAL. Transaction commits where always safe.
> >
>
> Thanks. I was specifically asking about Result '3'
> above mentions 'totally corrupted table page content
> because of partially written data pages' . Is this
> also repairable ?

I never heard of that happening to anyone.

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