On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 07:42 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 07:05 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > I assume torn pages are 99% of the reported problem, which are > > > expected and are fixed, and bad hardware 1%, quite the opposite of your > > > numbers above. > > > > On what basis do you make that assumption? > > Because we added full page write protection to fix the reported problem > of torn pages, which we had on occasion; now we don't. Bad hardware > reports are less frequent.
Bad hardware reports are infrequent because we lack a detection system for them, which is the topic of this thread. It would be circular to argue that as a case against. It's also an argument that only effects crashes. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
