On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> The transaction would be committed before a command success report is
> delivered to the client, so I don't think delivered-and-not-marked is
> possible.
...unless you have configured synchronous_commit=off, or fsync=off.
Or unless your disk melts into a heap of slag and you have to restore
from backup. You can protect against that last case using synchronous
replication.
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