Joseph Shraibman wrote: > Is it considered safe to run postgres over nfs if the sync option is used?
No, because NFS is not atomic in its operations. However, a number of people are running PostgreSQL over NFS to network attached storage devices, and it seems to run fine --- I just am not sure what will happen if the network attached storage devices goes down. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings