> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mikheev, Vadim [mailto:vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM]
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 6:01 PM
> To: 'Tom Lane'; J. R. Nield
> Cc: Richard Tucker; Bruce Momjian; PostgreSQL Hacker
> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] PITR, checkpoint, and local relations
>
>
> > > How do you get atomic block copies otherwise?
> >
> > Eh? The kernel does that for you, as long as you're reading the
> > same-size blocks that the backends are writing, no?
>
> Good point.
>
We know for sure the kernel does this? I think this is a dubious
assumption.
> Vadim
>
