Re: serverless postgresql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Doug McNaught
Subject Re: serverless postgresql
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Msg-id 87brp64cxy.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org
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In response to Re: serverless postgresql  ("Rick Gigger" <rick@alpinenetworking.com>)
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"Rick Gigger" <rick@alpinenetworking.com> writes:

> Anyway since postgres uses WAL files to verify the integrity of the database
> couldn't it more or less make the same guarantee's in an embedded version?
> As long as the app uses the db libs unmodified and doesn't mess with the
> files it creates how does simply making it embedded increase the change of
> db errors resulting in database corruption?

If an app's internal data structures get corrupted and it goes nuts,
pretty much anything can happen to its address space.

-Doug

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