On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 08:24:46AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Alban Hertroys <haram...@gmail.com> writes: > > That begs the question what happens in case of a crash or (worse) a partial > > crash when multiple file systems are involved. > > As long as the OS+hardware honors the contract of fsync(), everything's > fine. If the storage system loses data that it claims to have fsync'd to > stable storage, there's not much we can do about that, except recommend > that you have a backup plan. > > In practice, the more complicated your storage infrastructure is, the more > likely it is to have bugs ...
Just to give the 10k mile answer, the WAL contains all database changes that _might_ be lost due to file system changes during a base backup. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
