Re: [GENERAL] database corruption question

2006-10-11 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In the document "Transaction Processing in PostgreSQL" > ( http://www.postgresql.org/files/developer/transactions.pdf ) That's very, very old information. > I read : > "Postgres transactions are only guaranteed atomic if a disk page write > is an atomic action. Not tr

[GENERAL] database corruption question

2006-10-11 Thread maa1666
In the document "Transaction Processing in PostgreSQL" ( http://www.postgresql.org/files/developer/transactions.pdf ) I read : "Postgres transactions are only guaranteed atomic if a disk page write is an atomic action. On most modern hard drives that's true if a page is a physical sector, but most