On Apr 26, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jim Nasby <decibel@decibel.org> writes:
>> So what happens if a backend is running with full_page_writes = off,
>> someone edits postgresql.conf to turns it on and forgets to reload/
>> restart, and then we crash? You'll come up in recovery mode thinking
>> that f_p_w was turned on, when in fact it wasn't.
>
> One of the advantages of the proposed patch is that it avoids
> having to
> make any assumptions like that.
Yeah, the only email in the thread when I wrote that was Heikki's
original email (I wrote the email on a plane, but did note it had
been some time after the original email with no replies). Sorry for
the noise.
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Jim Nasby jim@nasby.net
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