Re: how critical is WAL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: how critical is WAL
Date
Msg-id 200102222103.QAA16626@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: how critical is WAL  (Rini Dutta <rinid@rocketmail.com>)
Responses Re: how critical is WAL  (Rini Dutta <rinid@rocketmail.com>)
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> > Indexes could get corrupt, requiring rebuilding.
> > That problem is gone
> > with WAL.  Transaction commits where always safe.
> >
>
> Thanks. I was specifically asking about Result '3'
> above mentions 'totally corrupted table page content
> because of partially written data pages' . Is this
> also repairable ?

I never heard of that happening to anyone.

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