Re: [PERFORM] New wiki page on write reliability

2010-10-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
Greg Smith wrote: > Now that some of my recent writing has gone from NDA protected to public > sample, I've added a new page to the PostgreSQL wiki that provides a > good starting set of resources to learn about an ever popular topic > here, how write cache problems can lead to database corrupti

Re: [PERFORM] New wiki page on write reliability

2010-10-21 Thread Greg Smith
Brad Nicholson wrote: I think a warning turning fsync off, the dangers of async_commit, and the potential problems with disabling full_page_writes might be worth mentioning on this page, unless you want to leave that buried in the attached references. Good idea to highlight that. What I just

Re: [PERFORM] New wiki page on write reliability

2010-10-21 Thread Brad Nicholson
On 10-10-21 10:08 AM, Greg Smith wrote: Now that some of my recent writing has gone from NDA protected to public sample, I've added a new page to the PostgreSQL wiki that provides a good starting set of resources to learn about an ever popular topic here, how write cache problems can lead to da

[PERFORM] New wiki page on write reliability

2010-10-21 Thread Greg Smith
Now that some of my recent writing has gone from NDA protected to public sample, I've added a new page to the PostgreSQL wiki that provides a good starting set of resources to learn about an ever popular topic here, how write cache problems can lead to database corruption: http://wiki.postgres