| From: | "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Garry Saddington" <garry(at)schoolteachers(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Losing data |
| Date: | 2008-06-19 17:09:09 |
| Message-ID: | dcc563d10806191009g7efebff2k9799945ef7e40455@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Garry Saddington
<garry(at)schoolteachers(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
> I have had a serious loss of data and wondered if anyone could shed any light
> on what may have happened.
> My users have been writing reports on students. No error messages have been
> produced and when called back up the reports seem to be present at the time
> of writing. However, next day they have disappeared, and they do not appear
> in a pg_dump. They seem to have been kept in memory and never written to
> disk.
> We are using Zope and connecting to Postgres through psycopg on Centos 5.
> I suspect a hard disk failure but any other ideas would be welcome.
> Would these reports be in the WAL?
> regards
Just a guess, but do you have some kind of search engine pointing at
the application? Could it be hitting a "delete" link maybe?
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