On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:14 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote: > On 11/21/2013 2:51 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: >> >> That leaves three possibilities: >> (1) fsync doesn't actually guarantee persistence in your stack. > > > I'll put my $5 on (1).... virtualization stacks add way too much ooga-booga > to the storage stack, and tend to play fast and loose with write buffering > to maintain some semblence of performance.
If you really hate your database, be sure and include an NFS mount at the vm image level in there somewhere. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
