On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Karl Denninger <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ANY disk that says "write is complete" when it really is not is entirely > unsuitable for ANY real database use. It is simply a matter of time What about read only slaves where there's a master with 100+spinning hard drives "getting it right" and you need a half dozen or so read slaves? I can imagine that being ok, as long as you don't restart a server after a crash without checking on it. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance