Dmitry Lazurkin wrote: > Does PostgreSQL use atomic file creation on FS? How does PostgreSQL > catch situation when system crashes between open call and write call? I > am interesting in this because I would like use PostgreSQL on network > file system. If there is a crash, the file would be left behind. This is slightly annoying, but shouldn't be a major problem. Persisting such information in a crash-safe way would require fsyncs that hurt I/O performance. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com