Hi, Le vendredi 29 février 2008 à 23:56 -0500, Greg Smith a écrit : > Wording is intentional--if you don't have a battery for it, the cache has > to be turned off (or set to write-through so it's only being used on > reads) in order for the database to be reliable. If you can't finish > writes after a power off, you can't cache writes and expect your database > to survive for too long. Well, am I just wrong, or the file system might also heavily rely on cache, especially as I use XFS ? So anyway Postgresql has no way to know if the data is really on the disk, and in case of a brutal outage, the system may definitely lose data, wether there is another level of caching (Raid controller) or not... Right ? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly