On 27 April 2016 at 21:44, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Petr Jelinek <p...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > +1 (Abhijit's wording with data loss changed to data corruption) > > I'd suggest something like > > #fsync = on # flush data to disk for crash > safety > # (turning this off can cause > # unrecoverable data corruption!) > > Looks good.
The docs on fsync are already good, it's just a matter of making people think twice and actually look at them. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services