> > The only source of serious problems is thus a bogus write of a page > > segment (100 bytes ok 412 bytes chunk actually written to disk), > > but this case is imho sufficiently guarded or at least detected > > by disk hardware. > > With full page logging after checkpoint we would be safe from this > case... > Comments? > > - full page backup on first after checkpoint modification I guess you are right, especially since it solves above and index. The "physical log" solution sounds a lot simpler and more robust (I didn't know you use PageAddItem, sounds genially simple :-) But we should probably try to do checkpoints less frequently by default, like every 20 min to avoid too much phys log. Andreas
