Re: Database integrity and disaster recovery

From: Martin Christensen <knightsofspamalot-factotum(at)mail1(dot)stofanet(dot)dk>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Database integrity and disaster recovery
Date: 2000-08-19 21:51:27
Message-ID: 87n1i92xyl.fsf@fangorn.inspocknito
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
Tom> I've heard of very few cases of actual data corruption in
Tom> Postgres databases --- and several of the ones I have seen
Tom> personally were eventually traced to flaky disk or
Tom> disk-controller hardware, not software faults.

Thank you, that's all I wanted to know. Corrupted indices are, as you
say, a very modest problem.

Martin

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