Re: Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing)
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Msg-id 5045.1066094085@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing)  (Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>)
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Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> writes:
> I think it is a timing issue.  The PG has no way to notify the OS that
> it has finished exiting, so if it takes a long time to exit, the OS
> will ungracefully kill the DB process(es).  Doesn't matter what DB (or
> any other application) you're running, you *can* lose data this way.

You most certainly will *not* lose data that way.  Committed
transactions will stay committed, no matter how the Postgres processes die.

            regards, tom lane

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