No. I had fsync on. - Stuart -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 December 2001 18:49 To: Mikheev, Vadim Cc: Henshall, Stuart - WCP; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [BUGS] After ~Crash Sequence not correct
"Mikheev, Vadim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It was made to avoid WAL-loging on each nextval call, ie it should work > like OID pre-fetching: value stored in WAL must always "exceed" values > returned by nextval so on the after-crash-restart sequence should be > advanced to value which was never returned by nextval (for non-cycled > sequences). Maybe I made some mistakes in implementation? Oh, okay. What I saw was that the next nextval() after restart was higher than what I was expecting; but that's correct given the prefetch behavior. But we've seen several reports wherein the value appeared to go backwards after a crash. Stuart, you weren't running with -F (fsync off) by any chance, were you? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org