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

From Rini Dutta
Subject Re: how critical is WAL
Date
Msg-id 20010222214406.29056.qmail@web2902.mail.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: how critical is WAL  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
I'm glad about that ! The documentation led me to
believe that it was imperative to move to the version
using WAL, perhaps the documentation could be modified
to remove Result '3' if it has not hapenned to
anybody.

Thanks
Rini

--- Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
> > > 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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