Re: [HACKERS] Re: Bug#43221: postgresql: When disk is full, insert corrupts indices

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Vadim Mikheev <vadim(at)krs(dot)ru>
Cc: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: Bug#43221: postgresql: When disk is full, insert corrupts indices
Date: 1999-08-20 13:21:31
Message-ID: 14015.935155291@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Vadim Mikheev <vadim(at)krs(dot)ru> writes:
> Whenever index insert fails (for _any_ reason) index may be
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> corrupted. I hope to address this with WAL...

One certainly hopes that's not true in the case of "cannot insert
duplicate key into a unique index" failures !?

regards, tom lane

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