On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 4:11 AM R.Wieser <address@not.available> wrote: > But, do you remember what the OP said ? > [quote] > want to download these as a 'background task'. ... you can CTRL-C out, > [/quote] > > Why now do I think that, when such a backgroud process is forgotten and the > 'puter switched off, the file, database or otherwise, could easily get > damaged ? And that a ctrl-c at the wrong moment could cause the same if the > cleanup (of the database, which could easily still be, in its own thread, > busy housekeeping) isn't done correctly. > > Also, have you /never/ encountered a corrupted file, database or otherwise ? > You must not have done much with 'puters at all ... >
On the contrary, I grew up with IBM DB2 and then PostgreSQL, both of which are actually resilient against power failures. I've also recovered data from crashed hard drives. So, yeah, I think I know what I'm talking about. Sorry. Have a nice day. Enjoy dealing with corruption in places where ordinary best-practices and basic tutorials can prevent it from ever happening. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
