| From: | "Harald Armin Massa" <haraldarminmassa(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | lapham(at)jandr(dot)org |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Restart after poweroutage |
| Date: | 2006-09-26 11:09:35 |
| Message-ID: | 7be3f35d0609260409tc0d520dpdf812b4e26400970@mail.gmail.com |
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Jon,
For what it is worth, I created a FC5 VMware installation and loaded my
> database data into it. I simulated a bunch of power outages by telling
> VMware to power off the vm. Is this a good simulation of a power
> outage, or is there something inherently flawed about using a VM to test
> this?
>
> It is inherently flawed. VMware really "powers down", that is, the
operating system has time to shut down. Or, in other incarnations, VMware
freezes the system state.
It's nothing near a real power outage, which gives no time for anything.
Harald
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