Re: [HACKERS] The dangers of "-F" - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Don Baccus
Subject Re: [HACKERS] The dangers of "-F"
Date
Msg-id 3.0.1.32.19990623162422.006d7ea8@mail.pacifier.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] The dangers of "-F"  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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At 02:29 PM 6/23/99 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>> I don't know how postgres works internally.  So my question is
>> really "are any such assumptions broken by the use of -F, and
>> does breaking such assumptions lead to a more serious form
>> of failure if there's a crash?"

>It is possible in an OS crash because we don't have any info about what
>order stuff is written to disk with -F.

OK.  This answers my question, thanks.



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