On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 23:27, satish satish wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to do some reliability tests on postgre SQL. I have
> use-case where the power can go off abruptly. I initiated 10,000
> insert operations and pulled out the cable in the middle. I had
> auto-commit option turned on. I observed 2 out of 5 times the tables
> were totally corrupted and could not read any data whereas 3 times I
> was able to read the data which was inserted.
>
> Is there any way that I could avoid that data corruption and ensure
> that atleast the records inserted till that point are available in the
> database. Or are there any tools through which I can recover the data
> in case the database gets corrupted?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sathish
>
We'll need more information - what OS and what version of PostgreSQL at
the least.
Stephen
