Re: database corruption

From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: database corruption
Date: 2016-02-12 14:28:52
Message-ID: 20160212142852.GE60681@crankycanuck.ca
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 07:46:25AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> Long term, you need to fix your hardware. Postgres doesn't corrupt
> itself just because the disks fill up, so your hardware must be lying
> about what writes completed successfully, otherwise, Postgres would
> be able to recover after a restart.

It may not be the hardware. Depending on how vmware is configured, it
could just be a setting. Also, something in the OP's message made me
think that this was _actually_ a network-attached disk, which can also
have such problems. (But in general, I agree.)

A

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Andrew Sullivan
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