On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Morris Goldstein <
morris(dot)x(dot)goldstein(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> But that makes me wonder: what about this sequence of events:
>
> - Postgres running normally on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
> - Update to table in /dev/sdb tablespace is committed but still exists in
> WAL.
> - Postgres crashes (e.g. power failure).
> - Postgres starts with /dev/sda only.
> - Recovery needs to update table in /dev/sdb tablespace.
>
> I assume bad things will happen in this case.
>
>
200% correct.

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