On 31 March 2010 15:23, Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > James Mansion wrote: >> Hannu Krosing wrote: >> > Pulling the plug should not corrupt a postgreSQL database, unless it was >> > using disks which lie about write caching. >> > >> Didn't we recently put the old wife's 'the disks lied' tale to bed in >> favour of actually admiting that some well known filesystems and >> saftware raid systems have had trouble with their write barriers? > > I thought the issue was that many file systems do not issue the drive > ATAPI flush command, and I suppose drives are allowed not to flush on > write if they honor the command. > > -- I thought I'd attempt to renew discussion of adding PostgreSQL support to MythTV, but here's the response: > It is not being actively developed to my knowledge and we have > no intention of _ever_ committing such patches. Any work you do > *will* be wasted. > > It is far more likely that we'll move to embedded mysql to ease > the administration overhead for users. It's a surprisingly hostile response. Thom -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
