On 2014-02-24 15:20:13 -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > TBH I don't care about torn pages during normal testing. I don't want to
> > suggest disabling it for real workloads with real data, just that it's
> > important to do so during development/testing of WAL related code,
> > because otherwise it will hide/fixup many errors.
>
> Sure, but you might want to account for torn pages anyway.
> Particularly if you're interested in some degree of automation, as we
> all seem to be.
Hm, well. I have to admit, if a test machine crashes, I'd just rebuild
the cluster. Unless I am working on crash safety testing in which case
I'd probably not have full_page_writes disabled...
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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