Re: Multicolumn index corruption on 8.4 beta 2

From: Greg Stark <greg(dot)stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Floris Bos / Maxnet <bos(at)je-eigen-domein(dot)nl>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Multicolumn index corruption on 8.4 beta 2
Date: 2009-06-09 16:42:52
Message-ID: C22FE0E4-8BC7-4E05-8279-8C19006DC5B6@enterprisedb.com
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Well sure it could -- once. It wouldn't be reproducible in a freshly
rebuilt index unless he's crashing his machine every time.

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Greg

On 9 Jun 2009, at 17:12, Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de> wrote:

> * Simon Riggs:
>
>> On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 13:40 +0200, Floris Bos / Maxnet wrote:
>>
>>> fsync = off
>>
>> That's a bad plan if you care about your database.
>
> It shouldn't introduce this type of corruption, though.
>
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