Re: Database integrity and disaster recovery - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martin Christensen
Subject Re: Database integrity and disaster recovery
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Msg-id 87n1i92xyl.fsf@fangorn.inspocknito
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In response to Re: Database integrity and disaster recovery  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
Tom> I've heard of very few cases of actual data corruption in
Tom> Postgres databases --- and several of the ones I have seen
Tom> personally were eventually traced to flaky disk or
Tom> disk-controller hardware, not software faults.

Thank you, that's all I wanted to know. Corrupted indices are, as you
say, a very modest problem.

Martin

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