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From Karsten Hilbert
Subject Re: Does PostgreSQL use atomic file creation of FS?
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Msg-id 20181212123733.GA29783@hermes.hilbert.loc
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In response to Does PostgreSQL use atomic file creation of FS?  (Dmitry Lazurkin <dilaz03@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 02:48:12PM +0300, Dmitry Lazurkin wrote:

> Does PostgreSQL use atomic file creation on FS? How does PostgreSQL
> catch situation when system crashes between open call and write call? I
> am interesting in this because I would like use PostgreSQL on network
> file system.

I doubt we can get more certainty than this:

    https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/creating-cluster.html#CREATING-CLUSTER-NFS

Best,
Karsten
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