"Qingqing Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess I know (at least part) of what you mean. This is because we rely on > replay all the xlog no matter it belongs to a committed transaction or not. > Why? Because a failed transaction is not totally useless since later > transaction may reply on some physical thing it creates - for example, a new > page and its links of a btree. So for heap, there is(95% sure) no such > problem.
Torn pages (partial page write) are still a problem. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org