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Re: [ext] Re: Losing data because of problematic configuration?

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>> < 2021-06-15 12:33:04.537 CEST > DEBUG:  resetting unlogged relations: cleanup 1 init 0
>
> Are you perhaps keeping your data in an UNLOGGED table?  If so, resetting
> it to empty after a crash is exactly what's supposed to happen.  The
> entire point of UNLOGGED is that the performance benefits come at the
> cost of losing the data on crash.


D'oh!


Yes, that is the case. I once used this but I was convinced that I took this back in some version. It is not in my main deployment, though. Now I have to find out (a) why I have diverging deployment and (b) how that bug came about to be.


Thanks a lot!



From: Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2021 3:39:31 PM
To: Holtgrewe, Manuel
Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ext] Re: Losing data because of problematic configuration?
 
"Holtgrewe, Manuel" <manuel.holtgrewe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> So it looks as if the database jumps back "half an hour" to ensure consistent data. Everything in between is lost.

Postgres does not lose committed data --- if it did, we'd consider that a
fairly serious bug.  (Well, there are caveats of course.  But most of them
have to do with operating-system crashes or power loss, neither of which
are at stake here.)

I am wondering about this though:

> < 2021-06-15 12:33:04.537 CEST > DEBUG:  resetting unlogged relations: cleanup 1 init 0

Are you perhaps keeping your data in an UNLOGGED table?  If so, resetting
it to empty after a crash is exactly what's supposed to happen.  The
entire point of UNLOGGED is that the performance benefits come at the
cost of losing the data on crash.

                        regards, tom lane



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