Stephen Robert Norris <srn@commsecure.com.au> writes:
> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 23:27, satish satish wrote:
>> 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.
> We'll need more information - what OS and what version of PostgreSQL at
> the least.
I doubt this has anything to do with either the OS or the Postgres
version. My money is on IDE drives with write cache enabled.
Use drives that don't lie about write completion, and you'll be in
good shape.
regards, tom lane
