On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/09/12 05:35, Scott Marlowe wrote: > I have read to emails to one of the postgresql lists, > where people in companies with 1000's of databases had > power failures and only the postgresql databases > restarted without special recovery actions required. > The other databases mentioned were Oracle, MySql, and > SQL Server. That was likely me, tho it wasn't thousands, it was somewhere near 100 or so. It was more a case of the other DBAs not doing their due diligence and testing their hardware back 10 or so years ago, when hard drives and RAID controllers often lied about fsync. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general