> I still wouldn't trust Slony with fsync off. Another scenario would be > the Slony trigger writes a change to the Slony DB, the db crashes before > it gets committed to disk. When the DB is started, no errors prevent > startup, but that transaction is lost. I'm not sure, but I think the questioner was proposing a policy of "if it crashes, we go to the standby, no attempt at recovery, ever", and I think that would be safe. And, personally, given my experience with pg, I think that's reasonable. Because the day I see pg crash I'm going to assume I have a hardware problem ;-) -- Scott Ribe scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice