Re: Corruption (Was: Re: Why Not MySQL?) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mitch Vincent
Subject Re: Corruption (Was: Re: Why Not MySQL?)
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In response to Re: Corruption (Was: Re: Why Not MySQL?)  (Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>)
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> His description of table corruption and the system running slower and
> slower sounds like a disk going bad.   I've seen it hundreds of times
> on news machines.  Constant retries while trying to write to the disk
> will give slowdowns.  Having data on a spot of the disk that's unreliable
> will certainly cause data integrity problems.
>
> Mitch, have you thoroughly checked the hardware?

Checked and replaced twice. We're using Ultra 160 SCSI drives now so the
speed there isn't a problem I hope. :-)






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