| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Lincoln Yeoh <lylyeoh(at)mecomb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Dumping and reloading stuff in 6.5.3 |
| Date: | 2000-05-15 14:15:53 |
| Message-ID: | 26762.958400153@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Lincoln Yeoh <lylyeoh(at)mecomb(dot)com> writes:
> Actually, say if I use postgresql on a journalling file system, would this
> problem go away?
Not unless your kernel guarantees to write dirty buffers to disk in the
order they were dirtied, which would be a fairly surprising thing for it
to guarantee IMHO; that's not how Unix buffer caches normally behave.
regards, tom lane
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