| From: | Florian Weimer <Weimer(at)CERT(dot)Uni-Stuttgart(dot)DE> |
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| To: | Darcy Buskermolen <darcy(at)wavefire(dot)com> |
| Cc: | mthomp(at)tierfleet(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Bug #807: Sequence currupted on recovery after kill -9 |
| Date: | 2002-10-31 20:25:59 |
| Message-ID: | 87iszi73u0.fsf@Login.CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE |
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Darcy Buskermolen <darcy(at)wavefire(dot)com> writes:
> I'm sure if you read the footers on Tom's email's it's pretty clearly stated
> 'do not kill -9 the postmaster'.
> So I'm not so sure that this is really a bug.
The operating environment is free to kill -9 the postmaster at any
time, and PostgreSQL is expected to ensure database consistency
nevertheless.
After all, PostgreSQL is a database and not a cardbox.
(But holes in sequence numbers certainly do not endanger database
consistency.)
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