Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> This scares me... You lose WAL you are a goner. Combine your OS and
> WAL into a RAID 1.
Can someone elaborate on this? From the WAL concept and documentation at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/wal-intro.html I'd say
the only data that should be lost are the transactions currently in the
log but not yet transferred to permanent storage (database files proper).