Re: beta testing version - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Naeslund\(f\)
Subject Re: beta testing version
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Msg-id 00e601c05c8e$b466c7c0$020a0a0a@totalmef
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In response to Re: beta testing version  ("xuyifeng" <jamexu@telekbird.com.cn>)
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From: "Nathan Myers" <ncm@zembu.com>
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 07:02:01PM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >
[snip]
> The logging in 7.1 protects transactions against many sources of
> database crash, but not necessarily against OS crash, and certainly
> not against power failure.  (You might get lucky, or you might just
> think you were lucky.)  This is the same as for most databases; an
> embedded database that talks directly to the hardware might be able
> to do better.
>

If PG had a type of tree based logging filesystem, that it self handles,
wouldn't that be almost perfectly safe? I mean that you might lose some data
in an transaction, but the client never gets an OK anyways...
Like a combination of raw block io and tux2 like fs.
Doesn't Oracle do it's own block io, no?

Magnus

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