Re: Is full_page_writes=off safe in conjunction with PITR? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Florian Weimer
Subject Re: Is full_page_writes=off safe in conjunction with PITR?
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Msg-id 878xq747ch.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de
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In response to Is full_page_writes=off safe in conjunction with PITR?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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* Tom Lane:

> I think we had originally argued that there was no problem anyway
> because the kernel should cause the page write to appear atomic to other
> processes (since we issue it in a single write() command).

I doubt Linux makes any such guarantees.  See this recent thread on
linux-kernel: <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=114489284200003>


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