On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:58:31PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > Now thinking about it, the guy had corrupt table, not WAL log. > > How is WAL->tables synched? Does the 'wal_sync_method' > > affect it or not? > > I *think* it always fsyncs() there as it is now, but I'm not 100% sure.
No. If fsync is off, then no fsync is done to the data files on checkpoint either. (See mdsync() on src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c) -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>) A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car. (Carrie Snow) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly