On 12/29/11, Ants Aasma <ants.aa...@eesti.ee> wrote: > Unless I'm missing something, double-writes are needed for all writes, > not only the first page after a checkpoint. Consider this sequence of > events: > > 1. Checkpoint > 2. Double-write of page A (DW buffer write, sync, heap write) > 3. Sync of heap, releasing DW buffer for new writes. > ... some time goes by > 4. Regular write of page A > 5. OS writes one part of page A > 6. Crash! > > Now recovery comes along, page A is broken in the heap with no > double-write buffer backup nor anything to recover it by in the WAL.
Isn't 3 the very definition of a checkpoint, meaning that 4 is not really a regular write as it is the first one after a checkpoint? But it doesn't seem safe to me replace a page from the DW buffer and then apply WAL to that replaced page which preceded the age of the page in the buffer. Cheers, Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
