Re: BBU Cache vs. spindles

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Steve Crawford" <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>, <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Ben Chobot" <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com>
Subject: Re: BBU Cache vs. spindles
Date: 2010-10-21 16:56:02
Message-ID: 4CC02A520200002500036C14@gw.wicourts.gov
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> With a BBU you can turn off full_page_writes

My understanding is that that is not without risk. What happens if
the WAL is written, there is a commit, but the data page has not yet
been written to the controller? Don't we still have a torn page?

-Kevin

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