On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:28:04AM -0400, Jack Orenstein wrote: > Our testing involves cutting power to machines running postgres 7.4, > while under load (lots of reads and writes). When we do this, we often > lose some files under pg_data storing table content. I.e., the file > named for a table's pg_class.oid value is simply gone. This can affect > many tables following a power outage. We know this problem has > occurred when we are unable to access a table, e.g. Really, the files should be under management of the operating system. What OS are you using and is the filesystems you're using crash safe? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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