Re: WAL and O_DIRECT - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: WAL and O_DIRECT
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Msg-id 21483.1431618933@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: WAL and O_DIRECT  (Ravi Krishna <s.ravikrishna@aim.com>)
Responses Re: WAL and O_DIRECT  (Ravi Krishna <s.ravikrishna@aim.com>)
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Ravi Krishna <s.ravikrishna@aim.com> writes:
> However our DB2 folks are raising a concern that PG WAL writes may not be crash safe, unless we are using write back
technologyin SAN or SSD , which we are using. 

What's your point exactly?  If the underlying hardware does not provide
durable writes, there's nothing PG (or DB2) can do to fix that.

            regards, tom lane


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