On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 02:08:00PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Florian Weimer wrote: > > > I think fsync=off also endagers metadata, while synchronous_commit=off > > should be perfectly safe as far as the metadata is concerned. > > Wouldn't this be worth mentioning as well? > > Is it true that a transaction is turned into sync commit as soon as it > writes on a system catalog? Is it desirable to make it so?
If we don't do that then regular users have the ability to put the catalog (and by extension everything else) at risk... I think we need that, though it would be nice if it wasn't an issue for temporary objects (but I can't see any way to accomplish that). -- Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
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