From: | Brad Nicholson <bnichols(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info> |
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To: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: New wiki page on write reliability |
Date: | 2010-10-21 14:34:49 |
Message-ID: | 4CC04F89.6020503@ca.afilias.info |
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On 10-10-21 10:08 AM, Greg Smith wrote:
> Now that some of my recent writing has gone from NDA protected to
> public sample, I've added a new page to the PostgreSQL wiki that
> provides a good starting set of resources to learn about an ever
> popular topic here, how write cache problems can lead to database
> corruption: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Reliable_Writes
>
> Bruce also has a presentation he's been working on that adds pictures
> showing the flow of data through the various cache levels, to help
> people visualize the whole thing, that should get added into there
> once he's finished tweaking it.
>
> I'd like to get some feedback from the members of this list about
> what's still missing after this expanded data dump. Ultimately I'd
> like to get this page to be an authoritative enough resource that the
> "Reliability" section of the official documentation could point back
> to this as a recommendation for additional information. So much of
> this material requires singling out specific vendors and staying up to
> date with hardware changes, both things that the official docs are not
> a good place for.
>
Looks like a good start.
I think a warning turning fsync off, the dangers of async_commit, and
the potential problems with disabling full_page_writes might be worth
mentioning on this page, unless you want to leave that buried in the
attached references.
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Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106
Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.
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